Juan de Álava (1480-1537) was a Spanish architect best known for his stonework produced in the

Plateresque Plateresque, meaning "in the manner of a silversmith" (''plata'' being silver in Spanish), was an artistic movement, especially architectural, developed in Spain and its territories, which appeared between the late Gothic and early Renaissance ...

style.

Life

Juan de Álva was born in 1480 in Larrinoa, a locality of

Zigoitia Zigoitia (, es, Cigoitia ) is a municipality in the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain. Its capital is the village of Ondategi. In 2013 the largest common grave from the Spanish Civil War in the Basque Country was excav ...

Álava Álava ( in Spanish) or Araba (), officially Araba/Álava, is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Álava, former medieval Catholic bishopric and now Latin titular see. Its c ...

to a family of stonemasons. In 1502, de Álva traveled to Italy where he became familiar with

Italian Renaissance architecture Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought ...

. de Álva worked primarily in the city of Salamanca, where many of his notable works are situated.

Projects

* Casa de las Muertes (1500), Salamanca * New Cathedral of Plasencia (1513) *

Convento de San Esteban, Salamanca The Convento de San Esteban is a Dominican monastery situated in the Plaza del Concilio de Trento (Council of Trent) in the Spanish city of Salamanca. History The Dominicans settled in Salamanca in about 1255, but their original monastery wa ...

(1524) * Cloister of

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral The Santiago de Compostela Archcathedral Basilica ( Spanish and Galician: ) is part of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela and is an integral component of the Santiago de Compostela World Heritage Site in Galicia, Spain. The ...

Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of S ...

* Chapel of the

University of Salamanca The University of Salamanca ( es, Universidad de Salamanca) is a Spanish higher education institution, located in the city of Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It was founded in 1218 by King Alfonso IX. It is t ...

, Salamanca (demolished), Salamanca *

Colegio Mayor de Santiago el Zebedeo The Colegio Mayor de Santiago, el Zebedeo, Colegio del Arzobispo or Colegio Mayor de Fonseca is a historical edifice in Salamanca, Spain, founded in 1519 by Alonso de Fonseca, archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (hence its name), in order to pro ...

(completed 1578), Salamanca

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alava, Juan De 15th-century Spanish architects 16th-century Spanish architects 1480 births 1537 deaths People from Álava Architects from the Basque Country (autonomous community)