Descripcion del real monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial :
su magnifico templo, panteon, y palacio : compendiada de la descripcion antigua, y exornada con nuevas vistosas láminas de su planta y montéa : aumentada con la noticia de varias grandezas y alhajas con que han ilustrado los católicos reyes aquel maravilloso edificio, y coronada con un tratado apendice de los insignes profesores de las bellas artes estatuaria, arquitectura, y pintura, que concurrieron á su fundacion, y despues le han enriquecido con sus obras /
por el R. P. M. Fr. Andres Ximenez ...

Description

Main Author

Ximenez, Andrés, 1617-1692.

Related Names

Marin, Antonio.
Gómez, Lázaro, 18th cent.
Villafranca Malagón, Pedro, ca. 1615-1684.
Santos, Francisco, fl. 1657.

Language(s)

Spanish

Published

En Madrid : En la impr. de Antonio Marin, año de MDCCLXIV [1764]

Subjects

Basílica (Escorial) > Basílica (Escorial) / Early works to 1800.
Escorial > Escorial / Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Renaissance > Architecture, Renaissance / Spain > Architecture, Renaissance / Spain / Early works to 1800.
Architecture > Architecture / Spain > Architecture / Spain / 16th century.
San Lorenzo del Escorial (Spain) > San Lorenzo del Escorial (Spain) / Buildings, structures, etc. > San Lorenzo del Escorial (Spain) / Buildings, structures, etc. / Early works to 1800.

Note

Errata, 3[par.]1r.
Includes index.
Topical side notes.
Signatures: [par.]-2[par.]⁴ [par.]² A-3K⁴ 3L².
Engraved port. of Charles III, to whom work is dedicated. Port. and tomb of Philip IV by Pedro de Villafranca Malagon. Many plates are after Lázaro Gómez's drawings by various engravers: Leonardo Albistur, Nemesio López, José Murguía y González, Juan Minguet, Hipólit Ricarte, Juan Bernando Palomino. General plan signed by "González" as engraver.
The "descripcion antigua" is that of Francisco Santos (Madrid, 1657 and later eds.). See Palau y Dulcet. Santos is sometimes taken as author of the present work.

Physical Description

[20], 452 p., [18] leaves of plates (15 folded) : ill., plans, ports. ; 31 cm. (fol.)

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