Sentence examples for isabelline from inspiring English sources

The dynastic war between Isabelline liberalism and Carlism was a savage civil war between urban liberalism and rural traditionalism, between the poorly paid and poorly equipped regular army of the liberal governments, supporting Isabella, and the semi-guerrilla forces of the Carlists.

The Isabelline style is not a pure style in that but few of the buildings created during the decades that it encompasses (c. 1480 c. 1521) represent a true architectural synthesis.

Major monuments in the Isabelline style include San Juan de los Reyes, in Toledo Infantado Palacee, in Guadalajara; San Gregorio, in Valladolid; Parral monastery and Santa Cruz, in Segovia; Medinaceli Palace, in Cogolludo; Calahorra Castle, in Granada; and Santa Engracia, in Zaragoza.

Lyon, France c. 1496 Toledo, Spain Juan Guas, Guas also spelled Was (born, Lyon died c. 1496, Toledo, Spain) architect, the central figure of the group of Spanish architects who developed the Isabelline style, a combination of medieval structure, Mudéjar (Spanish Muslim) ornament, and Italian spatial design.

Isabelline, vigorous, inventive, and cosmopolitan architectural style created during the joint reign of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, which in turn formed the basis for the Plateresque style.

Many of the characteristics of later Spanish (and Spanish colonial) architecture in the period of Spain's preeminence, following its successful explorations in the New World, can be traced to the innovations first seen in Isabelline buildings.