Palace of Charles V
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 | Palace of Charles V |
| Designer | Pedro Machuca |
| Location | Granada, Spain |
| Date | 1527 to 1568 |
| Building Type | palace |
| Climate | mediterranean |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | -- |
| Street Address | The Alhambra |
| Notes | adjoining the Escorial. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Palace_of_Charles_V.html |
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"The unfinished palace of Charles V at Granada, begun by Pedro Machuca in 1526, was designed with the architecture of Bramante and Raphael in mind. Its round courtyard, which evokes the circular vestibule designed by Raphael for the Villa Madama, has superposed, unadorned Doric and Ionic columns carrying simple entablatures. Compared to Plateresque examples, it has a purity and chasteness bordering on austerity. Machuca had been in Italy as late as 1520 and could therefore translate with relative ease the grand forms of the Renaissance into a clear and direct Spanish architecture, which contrasted sharply with the tortuous complexities of the Plateresque."
— Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p332.
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Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. circle and square diagram, p184. place-at-center diagram, p198.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Peter Murray. Architecture of the Renaissance. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1971. ISBN 8109-1000-4. LC 70-149850. NA510.M87. plan drawing, f510, p345.
Earl E. Rosenthal. The Palace of Charles V in Grenada. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. interior photo of west vestibule, plate 94.
Russell Sturgis. The Architecture Sourcebook. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984. ISBN 0-442-20831-9. LC 84-7275. NA2840.S78. perspective drawing, p323. [JE]
Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. ISBN 0-13-044702-1. NA200.T7. discussion p332.— Available at Amazon.com
Doreen Yarwood. The Architecture of Europe. New York: Hastings House, 1974. ISBN 0-8038-0364-8. LC 73-11105. NA950.Y37. perspective drawing of court, f732, p357.
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