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Relating to or being a 16th century Spanish architectural style distinguished by a wealth and richness of ornamentation suggestive of silver plate.

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  • Spanish Renaissance, of a style known as the plateresque.
  • Worthy of admiration, too, are several old plateresque rococo altarpieces.
  • The great arches are decorated after the plateresque style, and the spandrels abound in garlands, horns of plenty and other goodly tokens.
  • Adjoining it is an equally venerable architectural masterpiece with an unusual elliptical plan, virtually unique in Mexico, the plateresque Chapel of the Third Order.
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