The first tier contains six Corinthian pilasters and a broad frieze covered with Plateresque ornamentation, as are the pedestals on which the pilasters rest.
Among the finer or most curious were chalices proceeding from the parish church of Jativa, Las Huelgas, and Seville cathedral, and the Plateresque chalices of Calatayud, Granada, and Alcala de Henares.
The Archbishop's Palace, which dates from the seventeenth century, is not a good example of the plateresque style.
The choir altar has pictures, and a handsome plateresque screen.
This is one of the most exquisite compositions of plateresque in existence.
The plateresque is young and modest, and seeks to please in this splendid monument by allying the innovating forms with the traditions of a school outgrown.
In describing the second of these sketches, we shall resume our consideration of the Plateresque style generally from the point at which it is now left.
The style of this building, and the circumstances of the birth and training of its architect, raise the important question of the extent to which the Plateresque style in Spain may, or may not, have been of national origin?
IT is in the interior rather than on the exterior of the Toledo Foundling Hospital, that Henrique de Egas has best shown his command over the Plateresque style.
The basis of the design is no longer Gothic, but strictly of the regular Spanish Plateresque Renaissance with balustrade columns, figures in niches, and Arabesques imitated from the Italians.
The work which most resembles his, I believe, will be found in the detail of the wonderful Plateresque Town Hall at Seville, and that of the Cathedral at Plasencia.
The florid Spanish Plateresque of the former, and the cinque-cento carving of the latter, took precedence of the more regular Greco-Roman architecture aimed at by the architect of the house now under notice.
It is possible however, that although here in the midst of ordinary Spanish Plateresque one is tempted to cry out "Oh!
This is generally considered the finest example ofPlateresque (literally silversmith's) Architecture left in Spain.
It is 16th century Spanish Renaissance, known as the Plateresque style (from platero, silversmith).
The two flanking portals are also in the plateresque style with devices of this Spanish Renaissance period represented on them.
The one called del Presentacion is a lovely example of Plateresque art, chiselled like a jewel, and adorned with fanciful and happy trifles.
Northern facades of all four buildings, ornate doors in duplicate of Spanish plateresque doorways.
To the son he imparted his knowledge and the son applied it to architecture, creating the plateresque style.
Romanesque, Gothic, and Plateresqueare each well represented in León City.
As it and Salamanca were the two places where the silversmith's art flourished, so they are the two centers for the best Plateresque buildings.
Spain as the Plateresque or Silversmiths' style, and in England as the Elizabethan and Jacobean styles.
Late Gothic predominates amidst a deal of Plateresqueand Barroque ornament.
Attached to the chapel is a small vestry entered through a diminutive plateresque doorway of exquisite design.
The great west façade is highly enriched with Plateresque ornament.
After the close of the fifteenth century Italian or Renaissance influence began to be felt, and the decoration of the Plateresque style became the vogue.
The building was entirely altered by the "Catholic Kings," who erected the marvellous west façade, one of the best examples of Plateresque work in the country.
The inner gate is plateresque and only surpassed by San Marcos at Leon and the gateway of the university at Salamanca.
The cloisters, entered from a door in the north transept, are a jumble of Gothic and Renaissance, with a Romanesque arcade and a good deal of plateresque work as well.
The two pulpits are covered with interesting iron bas-reliefs, and the High Altar encased in a mass of plateresque silver work.
It would be difficult to find a façade of greater beauty than this marvel of plateresque work.
The Salle Capitular is a grand example of early sixteenth-century work, with a Plateresque frieze and gilt artesonado ceiling by Francisco de Lara.
Separating it from the crucero is a magnificent Plateresque reja, on either side of which stands a gilded pulpit.
Their well-known devices appear, together with the Towers and Lions, among the decorations, which reveal the influence of the plateresque style.
But those visitors who are really interested in Seville, and are capable of appreciating Moorish and plateresque art in their various imitations and combinations, will enjoy these little excursions.
The Town-hall or Ayuntamiento of Seville is an extremely ornate structure, in what is called the plateresque or Spanish Renaissance style.
That to the right has a fine artesonado ceiling, and that to the left is decorated in a species of Moorish plateresque style.
The classic Plateresque statues and bas-reliefs, as well as the exquisitely carved, Florentine decoration, seems strangely out of place under the Gothic loveliness above.
The remaining sides are subdivided by typically Plateresque band-courses and immense coats-of-arms of the Haro and Mendoza families.
Their vaulting illustrates every period of French and German Gothic as well as Plateresque art, while their names are taken from a favorite saint or biblical episode or the illustrious founders.
It is a tremendous piece of Plateresque carving, as exquisite as it is out of place, erected through the munificence of the Archbishop Don Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca in 1514 by the architect Francisco de Colonia.
The retablo back of the high altar, consisting of Plateresque ornament, belongs for the most part to the Renaissance.
None of the Spanish cathedrals have a better type of Plateresque architecture and decoration than the sacristy, built during the first half of the seventeenth century.
Almost all of this eastern end, breaking through the city walls, is, with the possible exception of the roof, part of the fine old structure, in contrast to the adjoining Plateresque sacristy.
With the possible exception of the curious Biblical scenes naively represented by groups of figures near the apex, which still tell their story in true Gothic style, it is a burst of Renaissance, or Plateresque glory.
The Plateresque style was rapidly developing towards the effulgence so in harmony with Spanish taste.
The galleries of the present cloisters are later Gothic work with Plateresque decorations and arches walled up.
The ornate carved doors, and the plateresque ornamentations of the masonry are highly decorative, and the marble floors and vaulted ceiling within should be seen.
It has three small naves, marble columns, and plateresque ornamentation.
The Casa de los Abades is 'more Italian in its plateresque than is usual in other houses in Seville,' says Mr. Digby Wyatt.
Pirate Deck-Hand Niches, North Facade of Palaces The northern facades of all the palaces along the Marina are beautifully embellished above the vestibules with an intricate plateresque decoration, modeled after portals in Old Spain.
As it is, the period which above all interests us here is that reaching from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries, embracing Romanesque, ogival, and plateresque styles.
As regards the plateresque northern and western facades, they are out of place, though the former might have passed off elsewhere as a fairly good example of the severe sixteenth-century style.
It is a hollow, crowned by half a dome in the shape of a shell which in its turn is surmounted by a plateresque cornice in the shape of a long and narrow scroll.
It is one of Becerra's masterpieces in the late plateresque style, as well as being one of the master's last known works (1569).
The huge retablo of the high altar shows Gothic luxuriousness in its details, and at the same time (in the capitals of the flanking columns) nascent plateresque severity.
The cloister--well, anywhere else it might have been praised for its plateresque simplicity and severity, but here!
The chapel where the latter lies is closed by a gilded iron reja ofplateresque workmanship.
In some of the decorative details, however, this retablo shows evident signs of plateresque decadence, and the birth of the florid grotesque style, which is but the natural reaction against the severity of early sixteenth-century art.
The ground on which are executed these three shields occupies the whole tympanum, and is covered with Plateresque devices including two tablets, on one of which we read the letters S.
Upon a ground of azulejos which copy the colour of the brickwork, we see a number of Plateresque designs of exquisite beauty, painted in white and blue, with occasional touches of other colours.
It is the first sample of plateresque architecture then introduced into Spain by Covarrubias.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plateresque" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
