Rococó Architecture

Gasperini Hall. Royal Palace. Madrid.

Palace of La Granja. Segovia.

18th Century.

Felipe V

Fernando VI

Carlos III

Count of Aranda

Count of Floridablanca

Count of Campomanes

Marquis of Esquilache

Esquilache riots. The issue of the cloaks and the wide-brimmed hats.

Esquilache riots by Francisco de Goya. 

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos by Francisco de Goya.

Father Feijoo

Political Power

 

Low Chamber. "Congreso de los Diputados"

 

High Chamber. "Senado"

 

Spanish Constitution. 1978. (First book)

 

Spanish Constitution. 1978. (Up dated)

Edward Hopper

 

Nighthawks

 

House by the railway

 

Hotel room

 

Hotel lobby

 

Morning sun

 

Morning sun (Real character)

 

Sheridan Theatre

Pre-Roman Spain. Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks.

 

Phoenician, Carthaginian and Greek colonies.

 

Phoenician commercial network. Location of Phoenicia (Middle East), Greece and Carthage.

A Roman city.

 

Cardo and Decumanus.

 

Cardo and Decumanus. Forum.

 

Roman road. (Cercedilla).

Urban Layout

 

Venice. Irregular layout.

 

New York city. Grid layout.

 

Map of Madrid. Irregular layout  in  the  historic centre and grid layout in Barrio de Salamanca. Radial layout can be seen north and south too.

 

Barcelona "eixample". Grid layout.