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283Imperial Architect: Background 58 Holtzmann 1903, passim. Yet it should be noted that most of the recent architecture that Maximilian ac- tually saw in Spain was of a completely different style, the plateresque, an up- dated version of the Flemish inspired, flamboyant Gothic from the time of the Catholic Kings, classicized by the inclusion of straight lines and Quattrocento ornament. A good example is the Palacio de Monterrey in Salamanca, built in 1536–39 by the foremost Spanish architect of that generation, Rodrigo Gil de Hontañon [Fig. 5.39]. On his return from Spain Maximilian was not permanently established in Vienna, but travelled a lot, mostly within the Erblande and Hungary, and also in South-Eastern Germany, to assist or represent his father in various negotia- tions and at the Imperial Diet. Only in the summer of 1556 Maximilian and Maria undertook another trip farther afield, to the Netherlands, in order to take leave of Charles v, whose plans to abdicate and to return to Spain had now become concrete. They travelled through Linz, Ingolstadt, Ulm, Stuttgart, Speyer, Worms, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Jülich, Maastricht and Tongeren and were received by Philip in Louvain on the 16th of July and by Charles in Brus- sels the next day. Their stay was brief, less than three weeks, but eventful, the many festivities including a tournament on 26 July. It doubtless was emotional at least for Maria, who must have been quite conscious that she saw her father for the last time. Though brief, the stay may have given Maximilian the oppor- tunity to update his earlier experience of the flourishing art and architecture of the Netherlands, if only because the representative character of the occasion provided ample scope for artistic endeavour.58 Figure 5.38 The Palace of Charles v at Granada, plan. Figure 5.39 Rodrigo Gil de Hontañon, Palacio de Monterrey, Salamanca (1536–39).