The Project Gutenberg eBook ofPortuguese ArchitectureThis ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online atwww.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.Title: Portuguese ArchitectureAuthor: Walter Crum WatsonRelease date: July 10, 2009 [eBook #29370]Most recently updated: January 5, 2021Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file wasproduced from images generously made available by theDigital & Multimedia Center, Michigan State UniversityLibraries.)*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURE ***
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Title: Portuguese ArchitectureAuthor: Walter Crum WatsonRelease date: July 10, 2009 [eBook #29370]Most recently updated: January 5, 2021Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file wasproduced from images generously made available by theDigital & Multimedia Center, Michigan State UniversityLibraries.)
Title: Portuguese Architecture
Author: Walter Crum Watson
Author: Walter Crum Watson
Release date: July 10, 2009 [eBook #29370]Most recently updated: January 5, 2021
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file wasproduced from images generously made available by theDigital & Multimedia Center, Michigan State UniversityLibraries.)
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURE ***
From the Marvilla, Santarem.From the Marvilla, Santarem.
From the Marvilla, Santarem.From the Marvilla, Santarem; also in the Matriz,Alvito, and elsewhere
by
ILLUSTRATED
LONDONARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANYLIMITED1908
Edinburgh: T. and A.Constable, Printers to His Majesty
AOS MEUS QUERIDOS PARENTES E AMIGOSA ILLMAE EXMASNRAM. L. DOS PRADOS LARGOSE OSILLMOSE EXMOSSNRESBARONEZA E BARÃO DE SOUTELLINHOCOMO RECONHECIMENTO PELAS AMABILIDADES E ATTENÇÕESQUE ME DISPENSARAM NOS BELLOS DIAS QUE PASSEINA SUA COMPANHIACOMO HOMENAGEM RESPEITOSAO.D.C.O AUCTOR
AOS MEUS QUERIDOS PARENTES E AMIGOSA ILLMAE EXMASNRAM. L. DOS PRADOS LARGOSE OSILLMOSE EXMOSSNRESBARONEZA E BARÃO DE SOUTELLINHOCOMO RECONHECIMENTO PELAS AMABILIDADES E ATTENÇÕESQUE ME DISPENSARAM NOS BELLOS DIAS QUE PASSEINA SUA COMPANHIACOMO HOMENAGEM RESPEITOSAO.D.C.O AUCTOR
PREFACECONTENTSLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSINTRODUCTIONBOOKS CONSULTEDINDEXFOOTNOTES
Thebuildings of Portugal, with one or two exceptions, cannot be said to excel or even to come up to those of other countries. To a large extent the churches are without the splendid furniture which makes those of Spain the most romantic in the world, nor are they in themselves so large or so beautiful. Some apology, then, may seem wanted for imposing on the public a book whose subject-matter is not of first-class importance.
The present book is the outcome of visits to Portugal in April or May of three successive years; and during these visits the writer became so fond of the country and of its people, so deeply interested in the history of its glorious achievements in the past, and in the buildings which commemorate these great deeds, that it seemed worth while to try and interest others in them. Another reason for writing about Portugal instead of about Spain is that the country is so much smaller that it is no very difficult task to visit every part and see the various buildings with one's own eyes: besides, in no language does there exist any book dealing with the architecture of the country as a whole. There are some interesting monographs in Portuguese about such buildings as the palace at Cintra, or Batalha, while the Renaissance has been fully treated by Albrecht Haupt, but no one deals at all adequately with what came before the time of Dom Manoel.
Most of the plans in the book were drawn from rough measurements taken on the spot and do not pretend to minute accuracy.
For the use of that of the Palace at Cintra the thanks of the writer are due to Conde de Sabugosa, who allowed it to be copied from his book, while the plan of Mafra was found in an old magazine.
Thanks are also due to Senhor Joaquim de Vasconcellos for much valuable information, to his wife, Senhora Michaelis de Vasconcellos, for her paper about the puzzling inscriptions at Batalha, and above all the Baron and the Baroneza de Soutellinho, for their repeated welcome to Oporto and for the trouble they have taken in getting books and photographs.
That the book may be more complete there has been added a short account of some of the church plate and paintings which still survive, as well as of the tile work which is so universal and so characteristic.
As for the buildings, hardly any of any consequence have escaped notice.
Edinburgh,1907.