Dome

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.; 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)