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 121
was busy with a mighty piece of ironworkconceived in quite another spirit—the reja of the Capilla delCondestable which is full of the calm beauty of Italy but ina medium which the Italians never dreamed of architecturaliz- 92 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE OF THE XVI CENTURY ing to the point of… … Fig. 28—Detail from the Tomb of Bishop Gonzalo de Lerma, Burgos Cathedral. Attributed to Diego de Siloe. Plateresque period. This fact was appreciated by the discrimi-nating priest who wrote the Medidas del Romano, for he honorsthe rejero with a paragraph pointing out how the reja for mylord the…
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