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- adjective Pertaining to an ornate style of
architecture of 16th centurySpain suggestive of silver plate.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This magnificent decoration, suggestive of the finest work in rare metals, is, in fact, called "plateresque," from its resemblance to the work of silversmiths.
The Jewel City Ben Macomber
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Adjoining it is an equally venerable architectural masterpiece with an unusual elliptical plan, virtually unique in Mexico, the plateresque Chapel of the Third Order.
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Adjoining it is an equally venerable architectural masterpiece with an unusual elliptical plan, virtually unique in Mexico, the plateresque Chapel of the Third Order.
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It was built using a rich mixture of architectural styles including late gothic, renaissance and plateresque with Indian motifs.
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It was built using a rich mixture of architectural styles including late gothic, renaissance and plateresque with Indian motifs.
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Worthy of admiration, too, are several old plateresque rococo altarpieces.
The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day... 2005
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Worthy of admiration, too, are several old plateresque rococo altarpieces.
The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day... 2005
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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.
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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
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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.
qms commented on the word plateresque
His lashings of gold are grotesque,
A Midas self-mocked in burlesque.
His shill, pallid Pence,
Is small change and hence
Permitted the cold plateresque.
October 11, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word plateresque
Oh, nice! I am ever in awe at your skill with these, qms.
October 11, 2018
qms commented on the word plateresque
zuzu, you make it a pleasure to post them.
October 11, 2018