Jesús Escobar

Who is Jesús Escobar?

Jesús Escobar, Ph.D., is a professor of Art History at Northwestern University located in Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Escobar is specialist in the art, 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 explores the interchange of architecture and politics in the evolution of Madrid from a secondary city of Castile to the seat of a global empire. The book won the Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies and has been revised in a Spanish-language edition published in 2008 by Editorial Nerea. Escobar is currently at work on a new book project that examines seventeenth-century architecture and urbanism at the court of Philip IV in Madrid.

Dr. Escobar was an associate professor of Art History and chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University located in Fairfield, Connecticut. He held visiting appointments at MIT and Columbia University.