The Theatines in Spain. The Architecture of the Order between the 17th and 20th Centuries
The Order of Clerics Regular Theatines is pleased to announce the publication of I Teatini in Spagna. Le architetture dell’Ordine tra XVII e XX secolo, a scholarly study devoted to the architectural identity and mission of the Order in Spain.
The author, Rossana Ravesi, is an architect and holds a PhD in History of Architecture and a PhD in History of Art from Sapienza University of Rome. She conducts her research at the Department of History, Drawing and Restoration of Architecture, where she serves as a postdoctoral researcher. Her interdisciplinary background combines architectural design, historical analysis, and critical archival research.
The book reconstructs, through a comparative and documentary approach, the architectural identity of the Theatines in early modern Spain, focusing on Madrid, Zaragoza, and Barcelona between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with extensions into the twentieth century. By integrating archival sources, historiographical critique, iconographic material, and direct analysis of built fabric, the study restores coherence to documentation long dispersed between Italy and the Iberian Peninsula.
Theatine architecture emerges not merely as a stylistic expression but as a concrete manifestation of the Order’s charism: clarity of the liturgy, centrality of preaching, and carefully articulated spatial hierarchies. These principles, rather than a single formal vocabulary, define the Order’s architectural identity across diverse typologies and urban settings.
The Italo-Spanish axis, with the Sicilian province acting as a bridge, reveals Spain not as a peripheral context but as a laboratory for the adaptation and reinterpretation of Italian models within local building traditions and urban forms.
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