Urban Images of the Hispanic World: 1493–1793

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00278

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This engrossing book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture as well as the different meanings that artists and cartographers invested in their depiction of New and Old World cities and towns. Kagan maintains that cities are both built structures and human communities, and that representations of the urban form reflect both points of view. He discusses the peculiar character of Spain’s “empire of towns”; the history and development of the cityscape as an independent artistic genre, both in Europe and in the Americas; the interaction between European and native mapping traditions; differences between European maps of urban America and those produced by local residents, whether native or creole; and the urban iconography of four different New World towns. Lavishly illustrated with a variety of maps, pictures, and plans, many reproduced here for the first time, this interdisciplinary study will be of interest to general readers and to specialists in art history, cartography, history, urbanism, and related fields.

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PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date May 2000 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300083149

EISBN 9780300266221

Illustrations 166

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List of illustrations

View of Delft
Nordovicum Angliae Civitas, 1558
View of Amsterdam
Angles of City Views
A map of Imola
Plataforma of Granada
View of Strasbourg
View of Toledo
Geographia and Chorographia
View of Valencia
View of Valencia
View of Valencia
Sevilla
The City at Peace (or Good Government in the City)
Descriptio urbis Romae
View of Florence
The "Catena" View of Florence
View of Venice
Principal Spanish towns in the Americas, with dates of foundation
Recordación Florida, Map of Guatemala with a view of Santiago de Guatemala
Recordación Florida, Map of the corregimiento (judicial district) of valley of Guatemala
Recordación Florida, Plan of Guatamela city
View of Santo Domingo
Map of Texúpa
Plaza of Tlaxcala
Plan for an Indian village or reducción
Conquest and "Reducción" of the Indians of the Paraca and Pantasma Mountains in Guatemala
View of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
View of New Amsterdam
View of Manila
Aztec Reconaissance Map
Codex of Santa María Asunción
Plano de Maguey
Codex Telleriano-Remensis
Codex Mendoza: The founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan
Codex Xolotl, map 1: The migrating Chichimec settle in the Valley of Mexico during the thirteenth century
Uppsala Map (Tenochtitilan/Mexico City)
Map of Esmatuayuacan
Mapamundi
Map of Spain and Portugal
Plan of Lima
Map of Asturias
Map of La Guardia and surroundings
Modern Map of La Guardia and surroundings
View of Segovia
View of Valencia
Map of Macuilsúchil (present-day San Mateo Macuilxochitl, Oaxaca, Mexico)
Nova dilineatio strictissime S. Didaci Provinciae in Nova Hispania
Map of Tenochtitlan and Gulf of Mexico
La gran ciudad de Temixtitan, detail
Cusco
Il Cuscho Citta Principale Della Provincia Del Peru
Urbs Domingo in Hispaniola
Urbs Domingo in Hispaniola
View of Hispaniola
World map, from a manuscript atlas for Emperor Charles V
La Havana
[San Juan de] Puerto Rico
Planta de la ciudad de Cartagena en las Indias . . .
Acapulco
The Port Named Nombre de Dios (Le port appellé le Nombre de Dios)
Caljou de Lima
The Battle between the Spaniards and the Pirates or Bucanneers before the City of Panama
Puerto de Acapulco en el Reino de Nueva España
Brazilian Landscape, said to be of Pernambuco
Prospectiva y planta del Santiago [de Chile]
A descripcõn of the City of La Serena which was burnt A°1680
View of a Plaza prepared for a bullfight . . . In Cuenca, Peru (Vue d'une Place preparée pour une course . . . de Cuenca au Perú)
Plan de Quito
Plano de la ciudad de San Francisco de Quito
View of Buenos Aires as seen from the Rio de la Plata
La gran città di Temixtitan
View of Tenochtitlán
Mexico
Nova Mexico
Mexico
View of Lake Tezcuco (i. e. Lake Texcoco)
Description, Situation & Vue de la Ville de Mexique . . .
Plano de Mexico
Cusco Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caiut
Cuzco urbis nobilissima et opulentissima Peruam regni . . .
America Nova Tabula
America Nova Tabula, detail of Cuzco
Cusco
Planta general de la Villa Ymperial de Potosí
Cerro de Potosí
View of Potosí
Potosí
View of Cologne
The Giralda with Saints Justa and Rufina
View of Manhattan
Inca House Model
House Group
Maya House Model
Lienzo de Tequixtepec
Codex Vindobonensis
Map of Teozacoalco
Map of Texúpa, detail
Foundational Plan of Mendoza (Argentina)
Foundational Plan of Buenos Aires
The Andean world
La Ciudad del Cielo
La ciudad los Reyes. Lima
Arequipa
Guamanga
Cuzco
Virgin de Monserrat
Virgin de Monserrat, detail
Portrait of General Juan de Landaeta
Portrait of General Juan de Landaeta, detail with a view of La Paz
Portrait of Martín de Landaeta
Portrait of Martín de Landaeta, detail of the Plaza Mayor
Doña Mariana Belsunse y Salasar
Conde de Superunda
Governor Don Miguel Antonio de Ustáriz
The Divine Intervention of the Virgin Immaculate during the Plague of 1719
The Construction of the Cathedral of Santiago de los Caballeros, Guatemala
Cathedral of Santiago de los Caballeros (Guatemala), detail
Sketch of a cave painting with a village and church
The Nuns of Saint Catherine Moving to Their New Convent
Our Lady of Cocharcas Under the Baldachin
Our Lady of Caracas
Descripción de la villa de San Miguel el Grande Cantina y Santuario de Jesus Nazareno de Atotonilco
Descripción de la ciudad santa de Jerusalén
Ciudad de la Plata en la Provincia de las Charcas
Defense of La Paz
Forma y levantado de la ciudad de México
Plan of Mexico City
View of the City of Mexico (Vista de la ciudad de México)
Conquest of Mexico (Conquista de México)
Vista de la Alameda de México
Allegory of New Spain
Albina and Spaniard Produce a Black Return Backwards
View of Plaza Mayor
Entrada del pueblo de Ystatalco
Move of the image of Guadalupe to its new Basilica
Indulgence for donation of alms toward the building of a church to the Virgin of Guadalupe
Conveyance of the Image and Inauguration of the Sanctuary of Guadalupe
Entrance of Saint Francis of Assis into Rome
St. Matthew, The Perdurable Life, Amen (San Matías La Vida Perdurable, Amén)
Plano General de la Ciudad de México
Plan of Lima
Lima, Ciudad de los Reyes, Corte e Emperio del Imperio Peruano
Plaza Mayor de Lima Cabeza de los Reinos de el Peru. Año de 1680
Procession in the Main Square of Lima
Procession in the plaza mayor of Lima, pendent
Plan of Cuzco
Ex voto. Cuzco after the earthquake of 1650
Bishop Mollinedo carrying the Host
The Images Arrive at the Cathedral
Corpus Christi Procession
Death of Saint Augustine
Vista del cerro y fortaleza fabricada por los Yncas del Peru en la Ciudad del Cuzco
Frontispiece from Historia de la villa imperial de Potosí
Title page from Historia de la villa imperial de Potosí
Ciudad. La Villa Rica e Imperial de Potosí
Entrance of the Viceroy Morcillo into Potosí
Entrance of the Viceroy Morcillo into Potosí, detail
Entrance of the Viceroy Morcillo into Potosí, detail
Descripción del Cerro Rico y la villa imperial de Potosí
Descripción del Cerro Rico y la villa imperial de Potosí, detail
Villa Ymperial de Potosí
The Virgin Mary and the Rich Mountain of Potosí
View of Toledo
View of Toledo
View and Plan of Toledo

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Contents

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Preface and Acknowledgments

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1. Urbs and Civitas

The city view, in various manifestations, has long been a source of both knowledge and pleasure. The Civitates orbis terrarum, a sixteenth-century compendium of cities worldwide, enabled the English writer Robert Burton (1577–1640) to “behold, as it were, all the remote provinces, towns, and...

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Chapter subject tags:Cities and towns--Pictorial worksCartographyWyngaerde, Anton van den, -1571Spain in the New WorldGeography

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2. Piety and Polity: Town and City in the Hispanic World

City views, by definition, require a city, or, at the very least, a town. More importantly, they require what Richard Morse once defined as the “idea of the city,” the belief that the city possessed special qualities and therefore constituted a subject worthy of artistic representation.Richard M. Morse,...

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Chapter subject tags:Cities and towns--Pictorial worksSpain in the New WorldDiscovery and explorationCartography

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3. Spain and America: A Cartographic Encounter?

How different were the mapping traditions of Europe and America? What effect did the arrival of the Spaniards in the Americas have upon native cartography? And did the encounter — between two ostensibly different systems of cartographical and geographical representation — produce a hybrid form of city view, something new, something peculiarly American?

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PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.45-70

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Chapter subject tags:CartographyCódice florentinoSpain in the New WorldMexico City (Mexico)Cuzco (Peru)Glyphs (Graphic methods)

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4. The Traveller’s Eye: Spanish America

Atlases, city books and other geographical publications — heavily illustrated and generally produced in large and expensive folio editions — customarily had only a limited audience, but there is little doubt that these volumes contributed enormously to the expansion of...

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Related print edition pages: pp.71-105

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Chapter subject tags:Spain in the New WorldMexico City (Mexico)Cuzco (Peru)Potosí (Bolivia)CartographyCities and towns--Pictorial works

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5. The Communicentric View

Writing in 1531, the famous Spanish humanist, Juan Luis Vives, examined the relationship between observation and knowledge. “Observation,” he wrote, “begins with the eye.” Vives then distinguished between seeing — a sensory phenomenon — and understanding or...

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Chapter subject tags:Cities and towns--Pictorial worksCartographyIndigenous peoples in artSpain in the New WorldManuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe, active 1613Portrait painting, Latin American

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Related print edition pages: pp.107-150

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6. Four Cities and their Images

In 1615, Fray Juan de Torquemada, a Spanish Franciscan who had spent much of his life in New Spain, published Monarchia Indiana, a sprawling, four volume work...

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Chapter subject tags:Cities and towns--Pictorial worksMexico City (Mexico)Cuzco (Peru)Lima (Peru)Potosí (Bolivia)Cartography

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7. Conclusion

To end we return — briefly — to Spain and the work of two artists encountered briefly in chapter one: the noted Flemish topographical artist, Anton van den Wyngaerde, and El Greco. Both are relevant here because their views of the Castilian city of Toledo speak directly to some of the broader issues this study has attempted to address, specifically, the...

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Related print edition pages: pp.199-205

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Chapter subject tags:Greco, 1541?-1614Toledo (Spain)Cities and towns--Pictorial worksCartography

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