{Renaissance Architecture [continued (34)]}[1st May 1991]

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[(Spain and Spanish America)]

( – Classical)

‘The palace [of Charles V in the Alhambra]* is square in plan with a huge central circular court (100 feet (30 metres) in diameter), which was intended for bullfights and tournaments. The plan is, therefore, fully Renaissance, being centralised and symmetrical; it is organised on cross-axes formed by the four entrances, one in each side. The facade shows a full understanding of the principles of Italian Renaissance design in its superimposition of orders (ie Ionic pilasters or half-columns above Tuscan, and Corinthian above Ionic) and in the alternating rhythm of of the triangular and segmental pediments above the windows of the second story.** The interior court is surrounded by a colonnade with a similar superimposition of Doric and Ionic.’

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*(which has never been completed)

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***– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13:] 1009

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