The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 448
orgot; but in the year1568 it again came into prominence from the com-mission received by Fernan Rinz to restore and in-crease its height a hundred feet, an order which wasexecuted with the utmost ingenuity. For, thoughtreated as a steeple, and uncompromisingly Renais-sance, it has all the airy… … Plate LIX.—The Giralda, Seville. 426 THE RENAISSANCE. The Churrigucrcsco. This style, which was introduced into Spain byChurriguera about the year 1650, and rioted all overthe country for the space of a hundred years, farsurpassed the wildest conceits of either Borromini orFontana. Classical…
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