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Hace 5 días · History of Spanish Colonial Architecture. Spanish colonial architecture became dominant in the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries when Spain undertook Catholic missions. Additionally, it can be found in its former colonies and some non-Spanish colonies too. Image Source: thespruce.com.
Hace 5 días · History of Mexico City. Coordinates: 19°25′59.11″N 99°7′43.84″W. The symbol of the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the central image on the Mexican flag since Mexican independence from Spain in 1821. The history of Mexico City stretches back to its founding ca. 1325 CE as the Mexica city-state of Tenochtitlan, which evolved into the ...
Hace 4 días · Palladian architecture. A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura, in an English translation published in London, 1736. Plan for Palladio's Villa La Rotonda ( c. 1565) – features of the house were incorporated in numerous Palladian-style houses throughout Europe over the following centuries.
Hace 5 días · Tudor architecture is a type of architecture that was popular in England during the 16th century, during the reign of the Tudor monarchs. These were six monarchs who ruled England from 1485 to 1603, starting with Henry VII and ending with Queen Elizabeth I.
Hace 4 días · While reading Michael Fisher's new book, Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600–1857, which details the diverse experiences of South Asians in Britain, I often found myself reminded of Tayeb Salih's 1969 novel Season of Migration to the North.() The figure at the heart of this remarkable story, originally written in Arabic, is Mustafa Sa'eed, a man who ...
Hace 5 días · Cozy fireplace nooks. 7. Tile with color, pattern and sun-kissed terracotta. Think of Spanish-style homes and you'll picture rustic stone or dazzling white stucco walls, red-tiled roofs, arched doorways, fancy ironwork and wooden beams. These are the familiar hallmarks of Spanish-style house design and architecture.
Hace 3 días · Figures in the Landscape: Rural Society in England 1500-1700. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000, ISBN: 9780860788041; 376pp.; Price: £59.50. Figures in the Landscape brings together fifteen pieces of research by Margaret Spufford stretching across her distinguished career from 1962 to the present day. (1) As such, it reflects her broad range of ...