Spain and Portugal in the Americas

Bernini’s piazza fronting Saint Peter’s is the most imposing of the European public spaces whose design may have been unconsciously inflected by an awareness of the great plazas of the Americas. By the middle of the sixteenth century the two most important of these, the Zócalo in Mexico City and its...

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Published in:	Architecture Since 1400 p. 141
Main Author:	Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	United States University of Minnesota Press 01-01-2014
Subjects:	Applied arts Applied sociology Architectural design Architectural elements Architectural history Architectural styles Architecture Arts Behavioral sciences Buildings Christian philosophy Christianity Churches Cities City districts City squares Clergy Colonial architecture Decorative architecture Ecclesiology Facades Friars Human geography Institutional buildings Metropolitan areas Monasteries Monks Political geography Practical theology Religion Religious buildings Religious institutions Religious organizations Social sciences Sociology Sociology of religion Spiritual belief systems Spiritual leaders Theology
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Summary:	Bernini’s piazza fronting Saint Peter’s is the most imposing of the European public spaces whose design may have been unconsciously inflected by an awareness of the great plazas of the Americas. By the middle of the sixteenth century the two most important of these, the Zócalo in Mexico City and its counterpart in Cuzco, were dominated by Christian churches. The European conquerors of the Americas were most successful when they learned enough about the local societies to sense what aspects of their own culture could best be paired with indigenous ones in order to convince the native inhabitants to become
ISBN:	0816673977 9780816673971