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SPANISH ARCHITECTURE.
Part II.

272 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE. Part II. seem to be in as pleasing proportion to it in height as they are in plan, so that, though different from the usually received notions of what a Gothic design should be, it is an invention that would well bear to have been further followed out. Perliaps it might have been, had it not come so late. The cathedral was only finished about 1520, when St. Peter's at Rome was well advanced. 717. Ciinborio of Cathedral at Valencia. (From Chapuy.) The architect of tliis noble building is not known, but he was probably a German acting under Spanish inspiration, as at Milan we find a German carrying out an Italian design with just that admixture of foreign feeling which seems to prevail at Seville. When, however, we consider what was done at Barcelona so shortly before, or at Segovia