Spanish Renaissance, of a style known as the plateresque.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference

Worthy of admiration, too, are several old plateresque rococo altarpieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day...] Reference

The great arches are decorated after the plateresque style, and the spandrels abound in garlands, horns of plenty and other goodly tokens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference

Adjoining it is an equally venerable architectural masterpiece with an unusual elliptical plan, virtually unique in Mexico, the plateresque Chapel of the Third Order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hats off to Sombrerete in the state of Zacatecas] Reference

It is a very clean-looking, cold-looking white monument of the Catholic faith, with a retablo attributed to Berruguete, and much plateresque Gothic detail mingled with Byzantine ornament, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

Avenue of Palms, we have again the beauteous old Spanish doorways in plateresque design, with niches filled with modern sculpture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition] Reference

The Casa de Montejo, built by the founder of Merida, Don Francisco de Montejo and the only example of plateresque style existing in Mexico today.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Political Briefing] Reference

Cardinal Mendoza, a building in the plateresque style, has been converted into a museum, and contains many beautiful samples of religious sculptures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

The northern facades of all the palaces along the Marina are beautifully embellished above the vestibules with an intricate plateresque decoration, modeled after portals in Old Spain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition] Reference

Unlike colorful Ottoman originals, these nostalgic matte-glazed Duemilaotto tiles of fired clay, designed by Boffi Creative Director Piero Lissoni, are all white, like monochromatic plateresque moldings on Hispano-Moresque buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

When this is grayed with age it is indeed of the effect of old silver work; but the plateresque in Valladolid does not suggest fragility or triviality; its grace is perhaps rather feminine than masculine; but at the worst it is only the ultimation of the decorative genius of the Gothic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

"centro" -- the nerve-center of the "torpid State," with two well-kept plazas, the plateresque cathedral of a pinkish stone worn faint and spotted with time, and the "seat of the powers of the State," all on the summit of a knoll -- the entire town slopes gently down and quickly fades away into dirty, half-cobbled suburbs, brown and treeless, overrun with ragged, dust-tinted inhabitants, every street seeming to bring up against the low surrounding range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference

A less subtle, but still very effective, combination is that hit upon by many oriental and Gothic architects, and found, also, by accident perhaps, in many buildings of the plateresque style; the ornament and structure are both presented with extreme emphasis, but locally divided; a vast rough wall, for instance, represents the one, and a profusion of mad ornament huddled around a central door or window represents the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory] Reference