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 67
mongthe most decorative ever devised for domestic work (as de-scribed in the Seville chapter, pages 236-250) and probablywould be more often used if better understood. To return to Toledo, it was in this hybrid architecture S8 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE OF THE XVI CENTURY that most of its parish churches… … Fig. II—Typical Granite Doorway, Toledo. in Mudejar were the Toledo residences with their almostwindowless facades which presented but one note of interest,the stone portal. This one note is so distinctive that it de-serves a brief word. Like the entrances in Avila and Estrema-dura it is of granite…
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