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| Architect | unknown |
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| Location | near Madrid, Spain map | ||
| Date | 1567 timeline | ||
| Building Type | library | ||
| Construction System | bearing masonry | ||
| Climate | hot temperate | ||
| Style | Renaissance | ||
| Notes | 18,000 volumes, long vaulted hall. See also The Escorial. | ||
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Sources on The Library, Escorial
Michael Brawne. Libraries: Architecture and Equipment. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. LC 73-089609. Z679.B83. interior photograph, p14. Juan de Contreras and Lopez de Ayala and Marques de Lozoya. The Escorial, The Royal Palace at La Granja de San Ildefonso. Translated by James Brockway. New York: Meredith Press, 1967. exterior perspective of Main Entrance(Library), p21. John Fitzhugh Millar. Classical Architecture in Renaissance Europe, 1419-1585. Virginia: Thirteen Colonies Press, 1987. ISBN 0-934943-07-9. LC 86-50560. NA510.M55. elevation drawing, plate 110, p191. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5. Available at Amazon.com
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