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Ventura Rodríguez

Spanish architect

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contribution to Baroque architecture

  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    In Western architecture: Spain

    …of 18th-century Spanish architecture was Ventura Rodríguez, who, in his designs for the Chapel of Our Lady of Pilar in the cathedral of Saragossa (1750), showed himself to be a master of the developed Rococo in its altered Spanish form; but it was a Fleming, Jaime Borty Miliá, who brought…

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