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 169
ies. On the one in question the theme ofthe carving is a fifteenth-century bull-fight quaintly conven-tionalized. The knights and ladies depicted are very Gothicbut this medievalism is accompanied by mouldings and orna- 140 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE OF THE XVI CENTURY mental motifs in the new style. The… … Fig. 43—Decorated Wooden Ceiling in the Patio of the University, Salamanca. has an interesting though incomplete ceiling, the lower ofwhich is illustrated in Fig. 43. It is very simple carpentry butmade effective by color decoration; the upper is more typicalwith Moorish coffers set into…
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