Casa De Los Pinelo
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The Casa de los Pinelo is a Renaissance-era building located in the centre of
Seville Seville ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir, River Guadalquivir, ...
in
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. It houses both the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras and the
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría (''Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary'') is located in the Casa de los Pinelo, Casa-Palacio de los Pinelo in central Seville, Spain. It is divided into six sections: ...
. It is named after one of its former owners, Francisco Pinelo (d. 1509), a wealthy merchant. The house dates from the 16th century and is centered around a courtyard, per the traditional layout that has been used in the region since the
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. The house mixes a number of architectural styles, such as the
Plateresque Plateresque, meaning "in the manner of a silversmith" (''plata'' being silver in Spanish language, Spanish), was an artistic movement, especially Architecture, architectural, developed in Spanish Empire, Spain and its territories, which appeared ...
motifs in the plasterwork of its arches, its
Mudéjar Mudéjar were Muslims who remained in Iberia in the late medieval period following the Christian reconquest. It is also a term for Mudéjar art, which was greatly influenced by Islamic art, but produced typically by Christian craftsmen for C ...
ceilings, and a Gothic-style '' mirador'' (balcony) in the uppermost level.


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