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Plateresque Style:
Other Countries.—In Spain the Renaissance began with the Plateresque style, a combination of Italian arabesques with the unbelievably elaborate detail, partly Moorish, of late Spanish Gothic. The facade of the Hospital of Santa Cruz, Toledo (before 1514), by Enrique de Egas, set off rich pseudorRenaissance pilasters, candelabra forms, and arabesques against plain Wall surfaces.Trinity Church in Boston, begun in 1872 and finished in 1877, shows the perfection of Richardson's individual style. This style evolved from his study of the Romanesque churches of southern France. The church is cruciform in plan, but the distance from apse Wall to facade is only a little in excess of the distance between the two walls of the transepts. A departure from the Gothic revival style popular after the Civil War, this highly personal Romanesque style of Richardson's had a powerful effect upon subsequent designs.
After a generation or so in which the Corinthian animal frieze style, which seemed to go with the technique, threatened to stifle this tradition, a series of distinguished Athenian Vase painters established a style in narrative that put the Corinthian potters' quarter out of business and restored Athens to the dominant position in Greek art that it had enjoyed in the 8th century. The mid-6th century artists Exekias and the "Amasis Painter" typified the best of the Athenian style.
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