The Spanish Renaissance was a movement in Spain, emerging from the Italian Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, that spread to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Santa Cruz Palace (1486–1491) in Valladolid is considered to be the earliest extant building of the Spanish Renaissance.
Image of Isabella I of Castile in the Rimado de la Conquista de Granada
Diego Velázquez, self-portrait
The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest by El Greco
Spanish Renaissance architecture
Spanish Renaissance architecture was that style of Renaissance architecture in the last decades of the 15th century. Renaissance evolved firstly in Florence and then Rome and other parts of the Italian Peninsula as the result of Renaissance humanism and a revived interest in Classical architecture. In Spain, the Renaissance began to be grafted to Gothic forms as mathematicians and engineers rediscovered building as one of the technological sciences. In the time of King Felipe II (1556–1589), the Renaissance influence expanded throughout the territory thanks to the dissemination of architectural treatises.
The late-15th century Palacio de Santa Cruz, an early example of Renaissance architecture in Valladolid
Plateresque facade of the University of Salamanca
Dome of the Chapel of El Salvador in Úbeda
Courtyard of the Palace of Charles V in Granada