Title: 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