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 167
the architect may bejustly criticized for having carried his theory of perspective alittle too far. The whole panel as it rises above the twin archesis a remarkable array of pure Italian foliated ornament but en- l.?8 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE OF THE XVI CENTURY livened by portrait medallions and the… … Fig. 42—Detail from the Portal of the Escuelas Menores, Salamanca.Ca. 1535. Architect Unknown. was in progress during his reign. In the uppermost division isa relief of the pope dispensing privileges which commemo-rates the fact that Salamanca University was under pontifi-cal as well as royal…
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