Spanish architecture of the sixteenth century; general view of the plateresque and Herrera styles (1917)
Byne, Arthur, 1883-1935, Byne, Mildred Stapley, 1875-1941 · New York, London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 102
fillet of Austria, the lily of Artois, thelion of Brabant, and the bands of Burgundy. In the little A history of the Escudo de Espafia may be found in the Revista de Archives,Bibliotecas, y Museos., vol. xxi., 1909. COVARRUBIAS AND THE MONUMENTS AT ALCALA 73 central shield are the lion and eagle of… … Fig. 22—Escutcheon of Charles V. over the Portal of theMonastery at Yuste. his claws clutching the Pillars of Hercules. That an emblemsignifying so much should have been dignified into a trulymonumental motif by the sixteenth-century designer is butnatural; that he succeeded in architecturalizing…
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