Jesús Escobar is a professor of
art history at
Northwestern University in
Evanston,
Illinois. Escobar specializes in the art, architecture, and urbanism of early modern
Spain and
Italy and has published articles and reviews in journals of art history and early modern studies. His book ''The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid'' (2003) explores the interchange of
architecture and
politics in the evolution of
Madrid from a secondary city of
Castile to the seat of a global empire. The book won the
Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies and has been revised in a Spanish-language edition published in 2008 by Editorial Nerea. Escobar is working on a new book that examines seventeenth-century architecture and urbanism at the court of
Philip IV Philip IV may refer to:
* Philip IV of Macedon (died 297 BC)
* Philip IV of France (1268–1314), Avignon Papacy
* Philip IV of Burgundy or Philip I of Castile (1478–1506)
* Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1542–1602)
* Philip IV of Spain ...
in Madrid.
Escobar was an associate professor of art history and chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at
Fairfield University
Fairfield University is a private Jesuit university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2017, the university had about 4,100 full-time undergraduate students and 1,100 graduate students, including full-time ...
in
Fairfield, Connecticut
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. He held visiting appointments at
MIT and
Columbia University. At Northwestern, Escobar has taught undergraduate courses on the High
Renaissance in
Italy and
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
Art in
Italy,
Spain, and
France, as well as a graduate seminar on Renaissance architecture in
Spain.
Escobar won a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to Spain where he researched ''The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid''. He has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...
in
Washington, D.C.
Escobar serves on the Editorial Board of caa.reviews, the online review journal of the
College Art Association of America
The College Art Association of America (CAA) is the principal organization in the United States for professionals in the visual arts, from students to art historians to emeritus faculty. Founded in 1911, it "promotes these arts and their understa ...
, and is editor for the scholarly book series, Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, published by the
Pennsylvania State University
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Press.
Escobar received his bachelor's degree from
Columbia University and doctorate from
Princeton University in 1996.
Bibliography
*''The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid'' (
Cambridge University Press, 2003)
References
Department of Art History at Northwestern University Professor Profile
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080723223816/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/html/dept_faculty_escobar.html Columbia University Visiting Professor Profilebr>Cambridge University Press Sample: The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Princeton University alumni
21st-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
American art historians
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Fairfield University faculty