Culprit Fay, The
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Culprit Fay, The, poem by
J.R. Drake, the title piece of his first collection (1835). The basic meter is iambic, but the metrical principle, based on Coleridge's
Christabel, is that each line has four primary stresses, irrespective of the number of syllables. More than 600 lines in length, it was written in three days in August 1816, according to Drake's friend Halleck. Delicately imaginative, with a background of Hudson River scenery, the poem is concerned with the adventures of a fairy who loves a mortal maid. As punishment he is ordered to catch a drop of the water raised by a sturgeon's leap in the bright moonshine, and the last faint spark of a shooting star.
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Crossroads of South America. (Cartagena, Colombia)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 8/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Banister Fletcher refers to the 'Plateresque' of the Renaissance architecture in Spain. 'Plateresque' (platero = silversmith) from the...decoration -- the ornateness of the Plateresque seems to have been entirely exported...
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Travel: Where life is danced to a distinctly Spanish rhythm Lilian Pizzichini basks in the sandstone glow of the ancient city of Salamanca
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/5/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...seriously here). An upwards glance reveals the dizzying plateresque carvings on the ceiling. Salamanca is home to the plateresco...of gold, designed by Alberto Churriguera, the father of plateresque finery. It is constructed from piedra de Villamayor - a...
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SALAMANCA 101
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/17/2002; 700+ words
; ...straight. The Convento de San Esteban is a fandango of the Plateresque, the Spanish ornamentation style that takes its name from...lecture halls, see if you can find the frog image in the Plateresque facade of the main building. If you can, legend says...
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Cruising the River Douro
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts; 12/23/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...s history of architecture. It has it all - Romanesque, Plateresque style, Renaissance, gothic and baroque. The University...pointed to a very ornate fa ade that is a premier example of Plateresque architecture from the 15th and 16th centuries. Our last...
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INDIAN MEMORIES IN TWO OF MEXICO'S CITIES.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...cathedral, incorporate all the architectural styles of the colonial period including Gothic, Herreriano, Neo-Classical, Plateresque and Renaissance. However, above all, the city is noted for its idiosyncratic Baroque structures built from red brick and...
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The eighteenth-century Cuban sacristy chest of drawers.(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) influenced the Cuban baroque both directly and indirectly through Spain via the Spanish plateresque style, which was in turn influenced by the French baroque. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When all Cuban governmental offices...
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Spanish colonial furniture of the West Indies.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Cuba. In the sixteenth century the new towns on the Spanish islands were a compilation of mixed styles dominated by the plateresque style, although there were also many Gothic and Romanesque elements. An example is the Alcazar Palace in Santo Domingo...
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EL PORTAL UPPING THE STAKES IN NOHO.(L.A. Life)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 11/7/1999; 700+ words
; ...the funds after the structure was badly damaged in the January 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Originally designed in the ``Plateresque'' style of 17th-century Spain, the building was remodeled in the 1950s to incorporate art deco elements. Actors Alley...
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Quixotic Spain.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 10/13/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Renaissance ornament. Carved on flat stone surfaces, the style is peculiar to Salamanca and northern Spain and is described as 'Plateresque'. The Spanish term means 'silversmith-like' - which says it all; its rich intricacies resembling the delicacy of a...
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In classic Carmen country Some of Spain's finest old buildings are now government-run hotels known as Paradors. And, as Adrian Woodford discovers in Extremadura, staying in one can make you feel as if you're on stage in an opera house
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/27/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...on the big green horse in the Plaza Mayor. His vast bronze statue points proudly across the Plaza toward his family's plateresque palace. We discovered a rather less ornate restaurant among the many ringing the square, waded through ankle-high mounds...
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plateresque
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
plateresque [Span.,=silversmith], earliest...fancifully twisted scrolls. It was in the plateresque period that Spanish workers in wrought...rejería ). Among the great plateresque buildings are the town hall at Seville...
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Plateresque
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Plateresque. Intricate highly decorative style of early C16 Spanish architecture, supposedly resembling fine silversmith's work, with...
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Spanish colonial art and architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Spanish Renaissance, with many buildings reminiscent of the plateresque style, with contrasting bare walls and ornamental doorways...Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1512-41), has a plateresque portal on the west facade. In 16th-century Mexico the...
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silverwork
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...cent. silversmiths added filigree and enamel to the decoration. A Spanish architectural style of the 16th cent. is called plateresque for its profusion of ornate motifs similar to the work of the silversmiths of that period. Much fine 17th- and 18th-century...
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Siloé, Diego de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...rotunda owing much to the precedent of Siloé's work at Granada Cathedral). He is regarded as a master of the Plateresque style . Bibliography Chueca Goitia (1953); Kubler & and Soria (1959); Placzek (ed.) (1982); Rosenthal...
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