Pedro Machuca (h.1490 - 1550)

• Was a Spanish artist, and architect.
• Born in Toledo.
• Machuca worked as a painter in the Royal Chapel of Granada, as well as in Jaén, Toledo, and Uclés.
• The significance of this work is that it represents likely the first major classic Renaissance style building in Spain.

• Culturally, it represents the urge by the conquering Christians to challenge the hegemony of Moorish architecture in the recently (1492) acquired province of Granada. 

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