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The Palace of Charles V, in Granada
Granada

Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada , in the autonomous communities of Spain of Andalusia, Spain....
, Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, is a Renacentist
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 construction, located on the top of the hill of the Assabica, inside the Nasrid fortification of the Alhambra
Alhambra

The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex of the Moors rulers of Emirate of Granada in southern Spain , occupying a hilly terrace on the southeastern border of the city of Granada....
. It was commanded by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I of Spain, of the Spanish realms from 1516 until his abdication in 1556....
, who wished to establish his residence close to the Alhambra palaces.






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Granada Alhambra Palacio Carlos V Exterior
The Palace of Charles V, in Granada
Granada

Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada , in the autonomous communities of Spain of Andalusia, Spain....
, Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, is a Renacentist
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 construction, located on the top of the hill of the Assabica, inside the Nasrid fortification of the Alhambra
Alhambra

The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex of the Moors rulers of Emirate of Granada in southern Spain , occupying a hilly terrace on the southeastern border of the city of Granada....
. It was commanded by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I of Spain, of the Spanish realms from 1516 until his abdication in 1556....
, who wished to establish his residence close to the Alhambra palaces. Although the Catholic Monarchs
Catholic Monarchs

The Catholic Monarchs is the collective title used in history for Isabella I of Castile of Crown of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon of Crown of Aragon....
 had already altered some rooms of the Alhambra after the conquest of the city in 1492, Charles V intended to construct a permanent residence befitting an emperor
Emperor

An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the female equivalent. As a title, "empress" may indicate the wife of an emperor or a woman who rules in her own right ....
. The project was given to Pedro Machuca
Pedro Machuca

Pedro Machuca is mainly remembered as the Spain architect responsible for the design of the Palace of Charles V adjacent to the Alcazar in Granada....
, an architect whose biography and influences are poorly understood. At the time, Spanish architecture was immersed in the Plateresque
Plateresque

Plateresque refers to the 15th and 16th century art form in Spain, characterized by an ornate style of architecture. This form was soon transferred to Spanish-owned colonies in America....
 style, still with traces of Gothic
Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
 origin. Machuca built a palace corresponding stylistically to Mannerism
Mannerism

Mannerism is a Art periods of European art which emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but continued into the seventeenth century throughout much of Europe....
, a mode still in its infancy in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. Even if accounts that place Machuca in the atelier of Michelangelo
Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
 are accepted, at the time of the construction of the palace in 1527 the latter had yet to design the majority of his architectural works.
Granada Alhambra Palacio Carlos V Interior


The plan of the palace is a 63 meter square
Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
 containing an inner circular patio
Patio

A patio is an outdoor space generally used for meal or recreation that often adjoins a House and is typically Pavement . It may refer to a roofless inner courtyard of the sort found in Spain-style dwellings or a paved area between a residence and the garden....
. This structure, the main Mannerist characteristic of the palace, has no precedent in Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, in which there was a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome thought and material culture....
, and places the building in the avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 of its time. The palace has two floors (not counting mezzanine floors). On the exterior, the lower is of a padded Tuscan order
Tuscan order

Among the classical orders of architecture, the Tuscan order's place in the architectural canon is disputed. The order was only defined in the wikt:canon of classical architecture by Italian architectural theorists of the 16th century....
, while the upper is of the ionic order
Ionic order

The Ionic order column forms one of the Classical order of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric order and the Corinthian order....
, alternating pilaster
Pilaster

A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile....
s and pediment
Pediment

A pediment is a classical architecture element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns....
ed windows. Both main façades boast portals made of stone from the Sierra Elvira.

The circular patio has also two levels. The lower consists of a doric
Doric order

The Doric order was one of the Classical order of Architecture of Ancient Greece or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic order and the Corinthian order....
 colonnade
Colonnade

In classical architecture, a colonnade denotes a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, as in the famous elliptically curving colonnades that Bernini added to the fa?ade of The apostel Peter's Basilica in Rome, which embrace and define the Piazza....
 of conglomerate stone, with an orthodox classical entablature formed of triglyph
Triglyph

Triglyph is an architectural term for the vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze, so called because of the angular channels in them, two perfect and one divided, the two chamfered angles or hemiglyphs being reckoned as one....
s and metope
Metope (architecture)

In classical architecture, a metope is a rectangular architectural element that fills the space between two triglyphs in a Doric order frieze, which is a decorative band of alternating triglyphs and metopes above the architrave of a building of the Doric order....
s. The upper floor is formed by a stylized ionic colonnade whose entablature
Entablature

An entablature refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capital . Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave—the supporting member carried from column to column, pier or wall immediately above; the frieze&md...
 has no decoration. This organisation of the patio shows a deep knowledge of the architecture of the Roman Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
, and would be framed in pure Renaissance style but for its curved shape, which surprises the visitor entering from the main façades. The interior spaces and the staircases are also governed by the combination of square and circle. Similar aesthetic devices would be developed in the following decades under the classification of Mannerism.

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