Talk:Palace of Charles V

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Why the palace was never finished

Clearly Carlos chose not to finish it. In fact, he didn't live in Granada any more. Ferdinand and Isabella are buried in Granada, but no one after. Carlos changed that.

The palace was not finished because Carlos lost interest in it. Otherwise he would have had it completed.

There was contemporary criticism of the palace, for which the main entrance to the Alhambra was obliterated. I don't know how much sympathy there would be in sixteenth-century Christian Europe for a Muslim palace in a completely foreign style. Münzer was taken by it, in the report of his 1494 trip. Washington Irving had no problem redoing a few rooms in New England style. He didn't need to get permission, no one cared. But he didn't show any respect for the Alhambra as Moorish art.

Anachronical and unfair it may be, but there was contemporary criticism of Carlos V's palace and that is related to the fact that it was never finished. When I find the refs. I'll put it in, but meanwhile I thought it should be mentioned here. You can't just ignore it. deisenbe (talk) 11:38, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]