Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Marías, Fernando, 1949-

Description

1. x, 235 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm

Summary

1. "Focussing on cities and towns in south America, including Mexico City, Lima and Potosi this book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture. It investigates the different ways in which artists, map-makers, surveyors and military engineers represented a city in all its complexity and the different meanings that were invested in their depiction of New and Old World cities and towns."--Jacket

Uniform title

1. Imagenes urbanas del mundo hispánico, 1493-1780. English

Alternative title

1. Imagenes urbanas del mundo hispánico, 1493-1780.

Subject

1. Lateinamerika
2. Cities and towns > Latin America > History > Pictorial works
3. Cities and towns > Spain > History > Pictorial works
4. Cities and towns > Latin America > History
5. Cities and towns > Spain > History
6. Cities and towns
7. Stadt
8. Steden
9. Afbeeldingen (algemeen)
10. Motiver (Bildekunst)
11. Urbanisering
12. Latin-Amerika
13. Historisk framstilling
14. Arkitektur
15. Kunst
16. South America. > Towns > cartography. > [literature] > 2000
17. Spain. > Towns > cartography. > [literature] > 2000
18. Latin America
19. Spain
20. Spanien
21. Lateinamerika

Genre/Form

1. illustrated books.
2. Illustrated works.
3. History.
4. Pictorial works.
5. Ouvrages illustrés.

Contents

1. Urbs and civitas -- Piety and polity: town and city in the Hispanic world -- Spain and America: a cartographic encounter? -- The traveller's eye -- The communicentric view -- Four cities and their images: Mexico City, Lima, Cuzco, Potosı́ -- Conclusion.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Translation of: Imagenes urbanas del mundo hispánico, 1493-1780.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.