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The style started to spread mainly by local architects: that is the cause of the creation of a specifically Spanish Renaissance, that brought the influence of Italian architecture, sometimes from illuminated books and paintings, mixed with Gothic tradition and local idiosyncrasy.
Plateresque has been considered down to current times a Renaissance style by many scholars. To others, it is its own style, and sometimes receives the designation of Protorenaissance. [3] [4] Some even call it First Renaissance in a refusal to consider it as a style in itself, but to distinguish it from non-Spanish Renaissance works. [5]
The Spanish Renaissance was a movement in Spain, emerging from the Italian Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, that spread to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries. [ 1 ] This new focus in art , literature , quotes and science inspired by the Greco-Roman tradition of Classical antiquity , received a major impulse from several ...
Facade of the Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso, University of Alcalá de Henares, by Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón (1537–1553).. Purism is an initial phase of Renaissance architecture in Spain, which took place between 1530 and 1560, after Isabelline Gothic and prior to the Herrerian architecture in the last third of the 16th century.
Royal Palace of Madrid Plaza de España, Seville. Spanish architecture refers to architecture in any area of what is now Spain, and by Spanish architects worldwide. The term includes buildings which were constructed within the current borders of Spain prior to its existence as a nation, when the land was called Iberia, Hispania, or was divided between several Christian and Muslim kingdoms.
Spanish Renaissance 15th and 16th centuries; Plateresque continued from Spanish Gothic – 1560 ... Queen Anne Style architecture (United States) 1880–1910s (US)
The star of Granada is hands down the Alhambra, an Islamic palace and fortress considered to be a dazzling example of the Spanish Renaissance architectural style.
The design of the National Palace is a unified style of Spanish Renaissance architecture with an air of academic classicism. It is the result of different functional forms and construction procedures, resolved by a technical language attributed to the Barcelona School of Architecture. [5]