The Renaissance architecture. During the reign of Carlos V one perceives a fast diminution of the German influence and a greater dependency of the lines of the Italian Renaissance. The Hispanic forms stay following the traditional or mixed lines with the new Italian forms. The traditional plateresco maintains its rich ornamentation, like in the House of the City council of Seville, constructed according to planes of Diego de Riaño. Predominance of the Italian lines demonstrates the puristic plateresco style already, call thus by its smaller amount of adornment.

Throughout the century a resignation to the excessive decoration also notices, so of the traditional taste, simultaneously that occurs greater importance to a decorative purity of Italian classic line. The beautiful cathedral of Jaén, numerous noble houses are examples of her, like the palace of Mancera in Úbeda and the New Door of Hinge in Toledo and, in Granada, the palace of the Chancellery, today City council, work of Martin Diaz and Alonzo Hernandez. All these works represent the predominant style since then. In Andalusia the palace of Carlos V is remarkable, in Granada, builds without finishing of Pedro Machuca, Italian style without relationship with the Spaniards.