Vincente Lampérez y Romea

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(Madrid, 1861-1923) Architect and historian of Spanish art. He studied in the Superior School of Architecture of Madrid, of which later he was professor. In 1909 he published his first important and fundamental work, entitled Spanish Christian Architecture , a work of reference, although, technically speaking, it had many errors and imperfections, both in the filiation of many monuments and in the defective of not a few planes.

In 1914 he won the prize of the competition called by the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, with the work La casa antigua española , which responded to his ideas about the return to an architecture based on our tradition, as the author had been manifesting in a cycle of lectures. Lampérez and Romea concluded that the only route that could be followed in architecture was to adopt the traditional styles, since for him the tradition meant purification for centuries and centuries of certain principles that do not change: the country, the climate or the idiosyncrasy of the breed.

Also important was his work as restorer and conservator of monuments, especially the Cathedral of Cuenca. Its literary production was enormous; (Madrid, 1922), the great Spanish monasteries (Madrid, 1920), History of Christian architecture (Madrid, 1935).

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