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Book SynopsisExplores the architectural and artistic projects of Philip II of Spain, placing them in the wider context of the peninsular, European, and transoceanic Iberian dominions.
Trade Review“This book presents a remarkable analysis of the cultural grammar and architectural lexicon found in buildings across the sixteenth-century Iberian world. It successfully demonstrates that such architectural language was far from merely mirroring the classical vocabulary of treatises used in the courtly milieu.”
—Pedro Cardim Renaissance Studies
“Laura Fernández-González’s attention to understudied buildings is admirable, as is her characterization of the Spanish Empire as one under construction. Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire makes an important contribution to the study of domestic architecture and will certainly put the Royal Archive at Simancas on the map of important undertakings by Philip II.”
—Jesús Escobar,author of The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid
“This book has raised new, pertinent questions, provoking a debate which calls for more research, especially in archives.”
—Annemarie Jordan Gschwend Royal Studies Journal
“Within the scholarship emerging from less represented territories of the Spanish Empire and comparative studies, Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire is an exemplar study on the self-fashioning of Philip II and the role of architecture in the construction of the Spanish Empire.”
—Maria Elisa Navarro Morales Architectural Histories
