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 208
vilas palaces is the Casa Polentinos, now a military acad-emy. Here something more ambitious was attempted butthe palace was left unfinished for centuries and the recentadditions and restorations for the purpose of adapting it to ISOLATED WORK IN CASTILE AND ESTREMADURA 179 its present use give no… … Fig. 56—Typical Granite Doorway, Avila. Segovia, the other important mountain town of the region,is primarily Romanesque. It has no notable Renaissancemonuments in its cathedral and its few sixteenth-centuryhouses are of the Avila type. One innovation, however, ispresented in the Casa de los Picos…
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