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Affonso aisles Alcobaça Alemtejo apse arcade armillary sphere barrel vault Batalha bays beautiful begun Belem building built buttresses canopies Capella capitals carved castle cathedral central centre century chancel chapel chapter-house choir church Cintra Claustro cloister Coimbra columns corbels corner cornice covered cresting crocketed Cruz curious curves cusped detail dome Dona doorway east elaborate enriched Evora feet finials finished flat foliage Gothic Guimarães head inside jambs João de Castilho king later Lisbon Manoel Manoelino monastery Moorish mouldings nave niches octagonal ogee opening Oporto Order of Christ ornament outer painted palace panels parapet Pateo pediment Pedro piers pilasters pinnacles plain porch Portugal Portuguese renaissance reredos rest ribs romanesque roof round arches sacristy Sala Santa Santarem São Vicente shafts side square stands Thomar tiles tomb tower tracery transept trefoil twisted upper vault Velha Vizeu walls west door west front whole
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Page 155 - Vasco da Gama, a nobleman of your household, has visited my kingdom and has given me great pleasure. In my kingdom there is abundance of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, pepper, and precious stones. What I seek from thy country is gold, silver, coral, and scarlet.
Page 23 - We leave out of our consideration those territories which at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century...
Page 75 - Alcabaga exceeded anything I ever saw as a work of destruction. They had burnt what they could, and destroyed the remainder with an immense deal of trouble. The embalmed kings and queens were taken out of their tombs, and I saw them lying in as great preservation as the day they were interred.1 The fine tesselated pavement, from the entrance to the altar, was picked up, the facings to the stone pillars were destroyed nearly to the top, scaffolding having been erected for that purpose. In short, regular...
Page 75 - William Tomkinson (Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1894), I have come across the following paragraph, under March 7, 1801 :— "We marched to Algiberota, one league beyond Alcabaca. The convent of Alcabaca exceeded anything I ever saw as a work of destruction. They [the French army] bad burnt what they could, and destroyed the remainder with an immense deal of trouble. The embalmed kings and queen...
Page 128 - Portugal — that he thought it must be Sansovino's lost palace. As a matter of fact the court is not arcaded — there is only a row of rough plastered arches along one side ; there are five and not four towers ; there is no trace now of any fine painted decoration inside ; and, in short, it is inconceivable that, even to please a king, an architect of the Italian renaissance could ever have designed such a building.
Page 34 - A thousand years in the sight of God are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Page 158 - With regard to Thomar, where the detail is even more curious and Indian-looking, the temptation to look for Indian models is still stronger, owing to the peculiar position which the Order of Christ at Thomar now held, for the knights of that order had for some time possessed complete spiritual jurisdiction over India and all other foreign conquests. This being so, it might have seemed appropriate enough for Dom Manoel to decorate the additions he made to the old church with actual Indian detail,...
Page 181 - ... unlike those at Belem. It might further be urged that Garcia de Resende who designed the tower, if he was never in India himself, formed part of Dom Manoel's great embassy to Rome in 1514, when the wonders of the East were displayed before...
Page 68 - But besides those two castles there is another building of this period which had a greater and more lasting effect on the work of this fourteenth century. In England the arrival of the Cistercians and the new style introduced or rather developed by them seems almost more than anything else to have determined the direction of the change from what is usually, perhaps...