Diego de Siloé
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Renaissance
- Categories: Arts, Architecture
- Subcategories: Architects
- Curriculum: Renaissance History, Spanish/Portuguese History
Article abstract: Siloé ranks as one of Spain’s greatest architects for his exquisite translations and combinations of Roman, Moorish, and High Renaissance Italian style into a Spanish idiom, most evident, despite his many other works, in the great Cathedral of Granada.
Early Life
While the artistic and intellectual achievements of fifteenth and sixteenth century Renaissance figures are often well documented, this is rarely true of their early lives. Of Diego de Siloé, it is known that about 1495 he was born in Old Castile in or near Burgos, Spain....
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