Fergusson, James: A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day: in five volumes (Band 2) (London, 1893)

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SPANISH ARCHITECTURE.

Part II.

Isabel, are all smaller, St. Ursula alone being of about the same
dimensions with St. Bartolomeo. The decoration of the apse of the
latter will afford a fair idea of the style of detail adopted in these
churches. For brick architecture it is singularly appropriate. It
admits of more or less light, as may be required. It is crowned by a
cornice of pleasing profile, and the whole is simpler and better than the
many-buttressed and pinnacled apses of the Gothic architects.

A more picturesque example, though not so pure as that last
quoted, is found in the little chapel of Humanejos in Estremadura
(Woodcut No. 960). As will be observed from the woodcut, there is

960. Chapel at Humanejos. (From Villa Amil.)

some 13th-century tracery in its windows, thus revealing its date as
well as betraying its origin, and but for which it might almost be
mistaken for an example of pure Saracenic architecture.

This is even more the case in a beautiful chapel in the monastery
of the Huelgas, near Burgos, which, were it not for some Gothic foliage
of the 14th century, introduced where it can hardly be observed, might
easily pass for a fragment of the Alhambra. The same is true of many
parts of the churches at Seville. That of La Feria, for instance, and
the apse of the church of the Dominicans at Calatayud, are purely
in this style, and most beautiful and elaborate specimens of their
class.

Yery pleasing examples of the adaptation of Moorish art to Chris-
tian purposes arè to be found in various churches throughout Spain