Laura Fernández-González is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Lincoln. She is the coeditor, with Marjorie Trusted, of the special issue of Renaissance Studies titled “Visual and Spatial Hybridity in the Early Modern Iberian World” and, with Fernando Checa Cremades, of the book Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs.
“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
“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
“Original, rigorous, and fascinating, this is a model of new
interdisciplinary approaches in architectural history.”—Alexander
Samson Journal of Modern History
“Beautifully illustrated and admirable for the original archival
research and range of material, this book makes an important
contribution to our knowledge of Philip II and the complexity of
the visual culture of his reign. It succeeds in offering a global
perspective on the function of images in the early modern
world.”—Stephanie C. Leone Renaissance Quarterly
“Phillip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire is beautifully
illustrated. The previously under-reproduced images of interiors,
along with the plans for their reconstruction, are immensely useful
for specialists. We should extend our gratitude to The Pennsylvania
State University Press for this commendable commitment to Hispanic
Studies and rejoice that Architectural Studies now has new material
for reflection, with promising interpretative avenues.”—Sergio
Ramiro Ramiírez Bulletin of Spanish Studies
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