Imago Urbis: Las ciudades españolas vistas por los viajeros (siglos XVI-XIX)

e-ISSN: 2254-7673
ISSN-L: 2254-2930
DOI: 10.22530/ayc

Fernando R. Bartolomé García

doi:10.22530/ayc.2020.18.583

Authors

Fernando R. Bartolomé García University of the Basque Country https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3802-3585 (unauthenticated)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22530/ayc.2020.18.583

Keywords:

urban iconography, travellers and city views, chorography and cartography, veduta, romantic image of spain, urban photography

Abstract

Luis Sazatornil Ruiz and Vidal de la Madrid Álvarez (coords.), Imago Urbis. Las ciudades españolas vistas por los viajeros (siglos XVI-XIX), Gijón, Ediciones Trea / Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, 2019, ISBN 978-84-17978-45-9. This collective volume, produced in connection with the eponymous exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias and a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, examines the visual representation of Spanish cities from the Early Modern period through the advent of photography in the bourgeois city. The book combines theoretical chapters—on chorography, veduta, Enlightenment travellers, and the Romantic image of Spain—with a reasoned catalogue of works drawn from major bibliographic and artistic collections. The reviewer responds positively to the scholarly rigour of the whole and highlights its relevance in a society defined by the primacy of the image as a medium of visual communication and knowledge transmission.