Catherine Wilkinson / THE HOSPITAL OF CARDINAL TAVERA IN TOLEDO 1977 History
Description: Library stamps/marks/labels, front free endpaper REMOVED, clear laminate on covers and paste-downs, otherwise light wear.; 135 illustrations. "This study focuses upon the sixteenth century architecture and particularly upon the original design of 1542. The later additions to the building will not be discussed in detail. Although construction dragged on into the seventeenth century, the momentum of the design was spent by the 1570's when its innovations were gathered into the more comprehensive style of Juan de Herrera and the Escorial. The degree to which the hospital participated in the development of late sixteenth century Spanish style, as a transition from the Plateresque and as a forerunner of the severe, monumental style, is the single most important problem raised by th.
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