Memory and modernity: The functions of architectural adaptability in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberian Peninsula

The uses and reuses of decorative wooden ceilings are representative of the artistic worlds that developed in Castile and Aragon in the late medieval and early modern periods. This contribution seeks to highlight the patterns of intention and use that emerge from the varied practices of consumption and display of these works. It also offers a selection of comparative material with which to contextualise the artistic and social environments that defined Gutierre de Cárdenas (d. 1503) and Teresa Enríquez’s (d. 1529) choice of carpentry ceilings for their palaces in Torrijos and Ocaña.