Jesús Escobar
American historian
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- Bachelors History Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 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 in Madrid.
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