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 269
missing portions. In a patio thus filledout one is able to gather a fairly good impression of its formerefi^ectiveness. None of the sixteenth-century yeseria wascolored; it was employed for its own charm and was not, as 240 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE OF THE XVI CENTURY in Moorish edifices, a field for… … Fig. 78—Sunken Patio in the Casa de los Venerables Sacerdotes, Seville. that process appears to have been lost; but being coarse andthe tool marks evident, it has its own charm as may be seenin Plate XLV. It is when used as a frieze that yeseria mostappeals to the modern. Another feature peculiar…
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