This magnificent decoration, suggestive of the finest work in rare metals, is, in fact, called "plateresque," from its resemblance to the work of silversmiths. ❋ Ben Macomber (N/A)
Adjoining it is an equally venerable architectural masterpiece with an unusual elliptical plan, virtually unique in Mexico, the plateresque Chapel of the Third Order. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It was built using a rich mixture of architectural styles including late gothic, renaissance and plateresque with Indian motifs. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Worthy of admiration, too, are several old plateresque rococo altarpieces. ❋ Unknown (2005)
When this is grayed with age it is indeed of the effect of old silver work; but the plateresque in Valladolid does not suggest fragility or triviality; its grace is perhaps rather feminine than masculine; but at the worst it is only the ultimation of the decorative genius of the Gothic. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It is a very clean-looking, cold-looking white monument of the Catholic faith, with a retablo attributed to Berruguete, and much plateresque Gothic detail mingled with Byzantine ornament, and ❋ Unknown (2004)
Granada, in the heart of their great conquest; and it is a most beautiful church, of a mingled Saracenic plateresque Gothic, as the guide-books remind me, and extravagantly baroque as I myself found it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Perhaps the facade of the college and that of the neighboring Church of San Pablo may be elsewhere surpassed in the sort of sumptuous delicacy of that Gothic which gets its name of plateresque from the silversmithing spirit of its designs; but I doubt it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Spanish Renaissance, of a style known as the plateresque. ❋ Louis Christian Mullgardt (N/A)
The great arches are decorated after the plateresque style, and the spandrels abound in garlands, horns of plenty and other goodly tokens. ❋ Louis Christian Mullgardt (N/A)
Typically Spanish in its fine proportion, in its exuberance of fantastic decoration, his church is a masterpiece of plateresque architecture. ❋ Unknown (1919)
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. ❋ Stella George Stern Perry (1916)
Avenue of Palms, we have again the beauteous old Spanish doorways in plateresque design, with niches filled with modern sculpture. ❋ Stella George Stern Perry (1916)
Cardinal Mendoza, a building in the plateresque style, has been converted into a museum, and contains many beautiful samples of religious sculptures. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The chief exhibits here are an eighteenth-century Neapolitan _Crèche_, with more than fifty doll-like figures; a rich tabernacle of plateresque Spanish work, and some furniture of interest. ❋ Thomas Okey (1893)
