Wojciech Odrobina 

Plateresque architecture

The Plateresque, which means "in the manner of a goldsmith", was an artistic movement, especially architectural, developed in Spain that appeared between the late Gothic and the early Renaissance at the end of the fifteenth century, and extended over the next two centuries.

 It is a modification of Gothic space concepts and an eclectic mix of Mudejar decorative components, Gothic flamingos and Lombards, as well as Renaissance elements of Tuscan origin.

Examples of this style are the inclusion of shields and pinnacles on the facades, columns built in the Renaissance neoclassical style and facades divided into three parts (in Renaissance architecture they are divided into two).

It reached its peak during the reign of Carlos V, Emperor of the Holy Germanic Roman Empire, especially in Salamanca, but it also flourished in other cities of the Iberian Peninsula such as León and Burgos and in the territory of New Spain, which is now Mexico.

Plateresque has been considered to this day as a Renaissance style by many scholars. For others, it is one more style, and sometimes it receives the designation of Protorenaissance. Some even call it the First Renaissance in a refusal to consider it as a style in itself, but to distinguish it from the works of the non-Spanish Renaissance.