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Isabelline (architectural style)

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with substantially less pitch. This made for a truly original style, yet more efficient construction. Spanish architects, accustomed to their Gothic structural conventions, looked with some contempt on the visible metal braces that Italian architects were forced to put on their buildings' arches to resist horizontal thrust, while their own Gothic building methods had avoided this problem.
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the 'Roman' in Spanish architecture had hardly begun. These terms were applied with a meaning different from what one would expect – the 'Modern', an originally Spanish style, referred to the Gothic and its rational efficiency, while the 'Roman' was the neoclassical or emotional and sensualist style of the
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Regardless of the spatial characteristics of the interiors, Gothic buildings utilized proven structural systems. The Gothic style in the Iberian Peninsula had undergone a series of changes under the influence of local tradition, including much smaller windows, which allowed the construction of roofs
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References to classical antiquity in the architecture of Spain were more literary, whereas in Italy, the prevalence of Roman-era buildings had given 'Gothic' a meaning adapted to Italian classicist taste. Until the Renaissance took hold in the Iberian peninsula, the transition from the 'Modern' to
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in 1492 and started the colonization of the Americas, imperial Spain began to develop a consciousness of its growing power and wealth, and in its exuberance launched a period of construction of grand monuments to symbolize them. Many of these monuments were built at the command of the Queen; thus
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The development of classical architecture in the Iberian Peninsula, as elsewhere, had been moribund during the centuries of building construction done in the Gothic tradition, and the neoclassical movement of the Italian Renaissance was late to arrive there. A unique style with modern elements
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Isabelline Gothic manifested the desire of the Spanish ruling classes to display their own power and wealth. This exuberance found a parallel expression in the extreme profusion of decoration which has been called
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in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It is the oldest European stone house in the Americas and probably the first European two-story house. It is an Isabelline-Gothic-style-house.
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and the pomegranate, which refer to the Catholic Monarchs. Also characteristic of this period is ornamentation using beaded motifs of orbs worked in plaster or carved in stone.
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origin were combined with Iberian traditional elements to form ornamental complexes that overlaid the structures, while retaining many Gothic elements, such as
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in the late-15th century to early-16th century. The Frenchman Émile Bertaux named the style after Queen Isabella.
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The Isabelline style introduced several structural elements of the Castilian tradition and the typical
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architecture, with original features and decorative influences of the Castilian tradition, the
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Architectural style in Spain during the reigns of Isabella I and Ferdinand II (1470s-1520s)
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influence. Many of the buildings that were built in this style were commissioned by the
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evolved from the Gothic inheritance in Spain. Perhaps the best example of this
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Detail of the Isabelline exterior decoration in the Constable's chapel of the
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Annie Cloulas (1980). "Origines et évolution du terme "Plateresco"".
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generic, is a question debated by historians of art and unresolved.
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or Italian Renaissance styles): that is, by propping them up with
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began to incorporate Renaissance ideas of form and structure.
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or were in some way sponsored by them. A similar style called
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building techniques had receded with the passage of time.
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Index

Isabelline style

Iglesia conventual de San Pablo

Colegio de San Gregorio
Spanish
architectural style
Crown of Castile
Catholic Monarchs
Queen Isabella I of Castile
Ferdinand II of Aragon
Gothic
Renaissance
Flemish
Mudéjar
Italian architecture
Eclectic
Plateresque
flamboyant
Mudéjar
Catholic Monarchs
Manueline
Portugal
heraldic
epigraphic
yoke and arrows
Reconquista
Plateresque

Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes

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