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 63
ger to be reckoned with than the sanction ofa primate, and that was local tradition. Toledo was a Mude-jar city. In it the Moorish type of civilization flourishedlong after the city had passed into Christian hands, and the 84 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE OF THE XVI CENTURY fact is nowhere more evident than… … FiG. lo—Reproduction of a Sixteenth-Century Chimneypiece in a Toledo House. men were given a free hand and worked along unaffectedby new styles that came from without, except when employedon Christian churches. What they produced for Christianmasters is known in Spain as the Estilo Mudejar. The…
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