Casa de Pilatos
Renaissance courtyard covered in over a hundred distinct sixteenth-century Mudejar tile patterns.
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This guide to Casa de Pilatos in Seville follows the craftsmen behind its one hundred fifty tile patterns, brothers Diego and Juan Pulido, and the noble patron Fadrique Enriquez de Ribera, who commissioned the house after a pilgrimage to Jerusalem left him dazzled by Renaissance Italy. It traces the same builders and carpenters who worked the royal Alcazar, and the Roman busts salvaged from nearby Italica.
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