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The palace of Charles V

PALACIO DE CARLOS V IN LA ALHAMBRA DE GRANADA

The building to which we find is a magnificent example of Renaissance classicism typical of the XV and XVI. The construction is made of stone and marble, we suggest a building whose construction expensive spared no means.

Fascinated by the beauty of the area, Carlos V, who visited the Alhambra on their honeymoon, a famous architect in charge painter, sculptor of his time, Pedro Machuca, this building designed as a residence of the monarch in the periods pass it on Granada. Machuca, who has worked in Rome with Bramante and Michelangelo, has been impressed by the new style and design embodied in a building prototypical Renaissance classicism.

works begin in 1527 and run for over a century and a half, so that neither the architect will come to see them completed, or the emperor will enjoy a stay in their facilities. However, successive architects who will take charge of the work fairly consistently respected the original scheme proposed by Machuca.

The end result, we can see in the image is a carefully proportioned Renaissance building with a facade divided by a defined cornice highlighting the horizontal longitudinal construction to divide the two halves facing similar dimensions. The bottom half of the wall, regular blocks, is finished in a very strong cushion that suggests strength and power. The upper part, covered by large windows, is marked by pillars attached to simulate a podium at the bottom and are crowned by Ionic capitals chosen as an order for outdoor use.

The openings around the perimeter are lintels in the case of windows and doors but on every window upstairs two separate open circular oculi to increase the brightness of the interior. The rhythmic and harmonious repetition of the openings, and the elements sustentantes conveys a sense of order and stability highly sought after by the authors of Renaissance classicism. While the lower floor windows have a simple header, the upper floor ledges alternate with triangular gables on your heads.

The front door is also topped by a triangular pediment reliefs decorated tympanum and jambs repeat the plea of \u200b\u200bthe pillar house with Ionic capitals. The whole is flanked by paired Ionic columns, banked on plinth on which rests a simple undecorated frieze.

The floor of the building is another of the features of this building, because while the outside presents a quadrangular layout, the interior courtyard surrounded by an impressive colonnade on two levels, is circular. With this combination of geometric shapes considered perfect by the canons of the sixteenth century building linking them with the characteristics of the English monarch's reign.

The decor is what one would expect in a monument of this time: architectural elements themselves, cleverly arranged alternately and are the only decoration. Especially in the bottom. The second floor was built at the end of the early seventeenth century and has some mannerist or baroque decorations on the lintels of the windows provided por los arquitectos que continuaron la labor del toledano.

Durante el reinado de Carlos V, cargado de problemas con una nobleza que no aceptaba de buen grado el nuevo papel que la monarquía absoluta encarnada en el Austria (rebelión de los comuneros) y los conflictos con Francia que ya eran tradicionales entre ambos reinos (las cinco guerras con Enrique II y Francisco I), el estilo predominante en la construcción era aún el gótico, considerado el “arte cristiano” por excelencia. Es notable que, pese a ello, las obras realizadas en estilo clásico por los arquitectos españoles del tiempo constituyan algunos de los más bellos ejemplos de pureza del clasicismo renacentista como en el caso de la Cathedral of Jaén, Granada and the same palace.