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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexicoen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1769-ca.1785 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorGuerrero y Torres, Francisco Antonioen_US
dc.date1769-1785en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-25T21:54:00Z
dc.date.available2013-01-25T21:54:00Z
dc.date.issued1769-1785en_US
dc.identifier186753en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1865en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/95947
dc.descriptionIn secular architecture Guerrero y Torres won great prestige with his numerous commissions from the nobility of Mexico for their private residences in Mexico City. In 1769 he began the house of the Marqués de Xaral de Berrio (now the Palacio Iturbide). The four-storey façade stresses its verticality by the use of a giant order of pilasters on the lower two floors, while a minor order flanks all the fenestration. It was completed by Agustín Durán, his brother-in-law. It gained the name “Palace of Iturbide” because Agustín de Iturbide lived and accepted the crown as Mexico’s first emperor there after independence from Spain.; In secular architecture Guerrero y Torres won great prestige with his numerous commissions from the nobility of Mexico for their private residences in Mexico City. In 1769 he began the house of the Marqués de Xaral de Berrio (now the Palacio Iturbide). The four-storey façade stresses its verticality by the use of a giant order of pilasters on the lower two floors, while a minor order flanks all the fenestration. It was completed by Agustín Durán, his brother-in-law. It gained the name “Palace of Iturbide” because Agustín de Iturbide lived and accepted the crown as Mexico’s first emperor there after independence from Spain. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/22/2009)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; bricken_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.subjectEighteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectSpanish Colonialen_US
dc.titlePalacio Iturbideen_US
dc.title.alternativePalacio de Cultura Banamexen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-M-MC-PI-A1en_US
vra.culturalContextMexicanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypepalaceen_US
vra.worktypemansionen_US
dc.contributor.displayFrancisco Antonio Guerrero y Torres (Mexican architect, ca. 1727-1792)en_US


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