Cultural Entanglements: European and Ibero-American Baroque Architecture (Mexico, 15-19 avril 2026)
Society of Architectural Historians 2026 Annual International Conference. Session: Cultural Entanglements: European and Ibero-American Baroque Architecture. Berthold Hub.
Ibero-American historiography tends to explain Spanish Baroque architecture as the outcome of purely internal Iberian developments. The rich surface decoration, which covers façades and retablos in particular, but sometimes also entire rooms, are explained by the Islamic and Morisco or Mudejar ornamentation and its continuation in the so-called Plateresque style of the sixteenth century, in short: by “invariantes castizos,” according to Fernando Chueca Goitia.
Numerous motifs, however, appear to originate from the so-called “column books” of northern Alpine carpenter architects such as Wendel Dietterlin and Vredeman de Vries. Although John Moffitt rightly attributed the Spanish form of the Estípide . . . → En lire plus
