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Updated: May 22, 2025
A much more pleasing example of the same school a school doubtless influenced by the bad example of Churriguera in Spain is the house called the Quinta do Freixo on the Douro a mile or so above the town.
To the rear of the building the remains of the Romanesque Church of Santa Maria la Mayor are still to be seen; what a difference between the rigid, anti-artistic conception of Herrero, ridiculized by Churriguera, and left but half-completed by successive generations of moneyless believers, and the simple but elegant features of the old collegiate church, with its tower still standing, a Byzantine recuerdo of the thirteenth century.
The architect died before his monument was completed, and Churriguera, the most anti-artistic artist that ever breathed, according to the author's personal opinion, was called upon to finish the edifice: his trade-mark covers almost the entire western front, where the second body shows the defects into which Herrero's severe style degenerated soon after his death.
On the other hand, Spanish Renaissance a florid form of the Italian is frequently to be met with; in its severest form it is called plateresco. The reaction came, however, quickly, and Churriguera introduced the most astounding and theatrical grotesque imaginable. The later history of Spanish architecture is similar to that of the rest of Europe.
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