Jesús Escobar
Visiting Professor
Spanish Art & Architecture
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1996

Biography
Professor Escobar is a specialist in the architecture and urbanism of early modern Spain and Italy and has published articles and reviews in leading journals of art history and early modern studies. His book The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid, won the Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies. Professor Escobar is at work on a new book project that examines architecture and urbanism at the Court of Philip IV. He was recently a Fulbright U.S. Senior Research grantee to Spain and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. At Columbia, he is offering a lecture course on Architecture in the Spanish World and a seminar on the Renaissance in Spain.

Contact Information
909 Schermerhorn Hall
Telephone: (212) 854-3617
E-mail: je154@columbia.edu