📗 Libro en inglés CHARLES GARNIER: JOURNEY TO SPAIN 1868 (2 VOLS)

The architect of the Paris Opera and the Monte Carlo Casino, Jean-Louis Charles Garnier (1825-1898), launched in May 1868 a trip to Spain 25 days duration in which he toured the country from north to south. He was accompanied by his wife, Louise Bary, and two friends Ambroise Baudry the architect and the painter Gustave Clarence Boulanger. Garnier and Boulanger left a valuable journal of the Spanish experience, entitled Itinéraire d''un Voyage en Espagne, where along with practical travel details (budgets, expenses, accommodation and transport), scoring short-and often insightful comments in prose and verse jocular tone-on cities and monuments, some appreciated and criticized other mercilessly. However, the most precious material for the trip to Spain consists of the pen drawings of architect and painter, landscapes, genre scenes and caricatures of the trio; and, above all, urban views and designs of buildings, recording his likes and historiographical phobias, and glimpses the effect that could have on Spanish architecture style Garnier. Are nearly 300 images, 250 of them made ​​in Spanish territory, and relevant to your trip by French lands thirties. This issue brings to light for the first time this extraordinary unpublished notebook of Charles Garnier. A neat edition in two volumes with case, including facsimile reproduction rate Travelogue, plus a Spanish translation and three preliminary studies on the architect and his time. A beautiful publication for the general public, who is invited to contemplate century and a half later, the image of Spain in an exciting new light.