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Research Interests
Professor Escobar teaches courses and publishes scholarship on the art, architecture, and urbanism of early modern Spain, Italy, and the larger Spanish world. Recent and ongoing publication projects consider the monastery-palace of El Escorial, a spectacular seventeenth-century map of Madrid, transatlantic Renaissance and Baroque religious architecture in the Spanish Empire, and the historiography of seventeenth-century architecture in Spain.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Princeton University
… → 1996
MA, Princeton University
… → 1992
AB, Columbia University
… → 1989
Research interests keywords
- Cartography
- Historiography of Spanish art and architecture
- Renaissance and Baroque art
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Proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Renewal Support for the Chicago Objects Study Initiative (COSI)
Escobar, J. (PD/PI), Gunter, A. C. (PD/PI) & Linrothe, R. N. (PD/PI)
4/1/18 → 9/30/24
Project: Research project
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Terra Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in American Art 1600-1950 at Northwestern University
Escobar, J. (PD/PI) & Swan, C. (PD/PI)
Terra Foundation for American Art
9/1/10 → 8/31/13
Project: Research project
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Enlightenment Erasure: The Lost Seventeenth Century in Spanish Architectural History
Escobar, J., 2022, In: Hispanic Research Journal. 23, 5, p. 430-451 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Españoles en la corte de los Medici: Arquitectura y política en tiempos de Cosimo I, by Carlos Plaza
Escobar, J., 2018, In: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 77, 4, p. 476-477 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Order and Harmony in the Building of the Plaza Mayor
Escobar, J., 2018, La Plaza Mayor: Retrato y máscara de Madrid. Blasco, B. (ed.). Museo de Historia de Madrid, p. 35-53 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Baroque Spain: Architecture and Urbanism For a Universal Monarchy
Escobar, J., 2017, Companions to the History of Architecture. Payne, A. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, Vol. 1. p. 653-677 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Philip II and El Escorial
Escobar, J., Jun 27 2017, Oxford Bibliographies: Art History. DaCosta Kaufmann, T. (ed.). Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter