Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793

Description:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Cities and towns,  Pictorial works,  Cities and towns in art,  History,  High Renaissance (c 1500-1530),  History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800,  History of ideas, intellectual history,  Man-made objects depicted in art (architectural, mechanical, etc),  Modern period, c 1500 onwards,  Urban Planning,  Political Science,  History - General History,  History: World,  Americas (North Central South West Indies),  Europe - Spain & Portugal,  Sociology - Urban,  History / Spain & Portugal,  Public Policy - Regional Planning,  Latin America,  Spain,  Civilization, hispanic,  Literary collections