Source: WTL© digital photograph taken on site at the former monastery of San Agustín Acolman.
Comments: This is the monastery's main façade. Notice that the portal is in Plateresque style (early Spanish Renaissance style, after the fine craftsmanship of silversmiths; plata means "silver" in Spanish), and that the façade contrasts dramatically with the overall sober severity of the architectural style.
Humanities Questions: What kind of arches are featured in this architecture? What is the effect of the overall soberness? Who constituted the intended audience? What kind of architecture were the people in that audience used to? What, therefore, might have been their reaction to this architecture and worshiping at or at it?