Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 182
ects structurally. The Gothic work of the latest period in Spain becameextraordinarily florid in its details, especially in the varietyintroduced into the ribs of the vaulting and the enrich-ments generally. The great cathedrals of Segovia andSalamanca were neither of them begun till the… … Fig. 59.—The Giralda at Seville. (Begun in 119G. Finished ix 1568). 142 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, left in Southern Spain buildings of great merit. A certainnumber of Christian churches exist built in a style whichhas been called Moresco, as being a kind of fusion ofMoorish and Gothic. The towers of…
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