The Escorial
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 | The Escorial |
| Designer | Juan Bautista de Toledo, Juan de Herrera |
| Location | near Madrid, Spain |
| Date | 1562 to 1584 |
| Building Type | palace |
| Climate | mild temperate |
| Context | -- |
| Architectural Style | Renaissance |
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| Notes | See also <a href="/buildings/The_Library-Escorial.html">The Library, Escorial</a>. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/The_Escorial.html |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Sites | |
| Name | Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid |
| UNESCO State Party | Spain |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, ii, vi |
| UNESCO Site ID | 318 |
| Year of Listing | 1984 |
Commentary
"The starkness that Machuca, along with his contemporary Diego de Siloe, introduced into Spanish architecture was the dominant feature of the Escorial—the extraordinary building that epitomized Spain's architecture after mid-century and was Philip II's monument to posterity. Philip's architects were Juan Bautista de Toledo and, after Toledo's death in 1567, Juan de Herrera. Both architects knew Italy and Toledo had practiced architecture there. He designed the Escorial, thirty miles northwest of Madrid, as an enormous rectangular precinct enclosing a royal palace, a monastery, and a church. The cornerstone was laid in 1563, and the complex finished in 1584. The period of its construction corresponded to the years of the Catholic Reform after the Council of Trent, and the building's astonishing severity and sobriety were indicative of both the religious spirit of Spain and of Philip II's own fervent Catholicism. His was a strict, ascetic faith, reflected in the Escorial's unadorned fa�ades, rigid rectangular layout of spaces, and square towers marking each of the four corners of the building."
— Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p333.
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G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3556-2. facade photo, p75.— Available at Amazon.com
John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. axonometric, p162-163.Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. — An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. Available at Amazon.com
Henry A. Millon. Key Monuments of the History of Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams. LC 64-10764. NA202.M5. plan drawing, p365.
Russell Sturgis. The Architecture Sourcebook. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984. ISBN 0-442-20831-9. LC 84-7275. NA2840.S78. perspective drawing. p152.
Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. ISBN 0-13-044702-1. NA200.T7. discussion, p333.
Doreen Yarwood. The Architecture of Europe. New York: Hastings House, 1974. ISBN 0-8038-0364-8. LC 73-11105. NA950.Y37. perspective drawing, f733, p358. none.
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