Royal Gallery
by GUAS, Juan, Marble
In Castile, the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, had developed a profusely ornamented Late Gothic style into a sort of royal mode. Buildings such as San Juan de los Reyes in Toledo, at first planned as a royal funerary church, display the magnificence of this Spanish courtly style. The two royal galleries in the transept, richly carved with elaborate openwork balustrades and consoles crafted to resemble fine metalwork, were key moments in the experience of the interior of the church.