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 147
nce is too striking to need comment;the one a systematized arrangement of laying out, a rhyth-mic succession of refined motifs; the other a bald facade ofcrude masonry relieved only by incoherent spots of richornamentation. 118 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE OF THE XVI CENTURY Entering the palace one meets a… … Fig. 37—Detail of Doorway of the Palace of Pefiaranda. off axis as if the Gothic necessity of impeding a hostile rush tothe court still existed. The patio is 54 feet square in theopen and is treated much more architecturally than the facadebut the detail is rather perfunctory. No matter how severea…
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