O Mosteiro dos Jerónimos é uma obra fundamental da arquitectura manuelina. D.Manuel pretendia aqui em Belém criar um conjunto Igreja e Torre de Belém, de assistência aos mareantes. Pretendia igualmente criar um símbolo nacional, que mostrasse ao mundo a intenção de uma “unificação dos cristãos de todo o mundo”, através da expansão marítima. O risco inicial é de Jacques Boytac (1501-1516), que lançou os fundamentos da igreja e do claustro, e cuja campanha de obra inclui os arranques do portal principal. Em 1516 entra em funções João de Castilho (1517-1528) até 1528 quando vai trabalhar no Mosteiro da Batalha. O portal sul, as abóbadas da igreja e conclusão do claustro, Sala do Capítulo, Sacristía, refeitório, são de sua autoria. A capela mor inicial menor, foi susbtituida por uma de Jerónimo de Ruão de estilo maneirista. Desde 1498 com a descoberta do caminho marítimo para a Índia, Portugal consegue ter acesso directamente à fonte das especiarias, e através de uma sofisticada logistica flutuante (auto-suficiencia de navegação e poder de fôgo), consegue colocar estes produtos na Europa. Todo esse manancial e poderio é aqui ostentado por D.Manuel I e D.João III.
The Church has a Latin cross plan, composed of three naves at the same height (Hallenkirche). Contrary to the proportions of the square section of Alcobaça 20x20m, and of 20x25 Batalha, here in Jerónimos the height of the rectangular section in he...
The cloister is a synthesis of different genres and styles, reflecting an effective interpretation of the principles of late Gothic. There were three campaigns for its construction between 1503 and 1551. Jacques de Boytac is its original author, a...
The cloister is a synthesis of different genres and styles, reflecting an effective interpretation of the principles of late Gothic. There were three campaigns for its construction between 1503 and 1551. Jacques de Boytac is its original author, a...
The Jerónimos cloister is the first of its kind in Portugal, with two vaulted floors and a square plan, with cut corners, forming a virtual octagon. It is considered a masterpiece of world architecture and constitutes an aesthetic statement of ext...
The cloister is a synthesis of different genres and styles, reflecting an effective interpretation of the principles of late Gothic. There were three campaigns for its construction between 1503 and 1551. Jacques de Boytac is its original author, a...
The Jerónimos cloister is the first of its kind in Portugal, with two vaulted floors and a square plan, with cut corners, forming a virtual octagon.
Prior to 1551, the Choir was used, among others, for the fundamental activities of the monks of the Order of São Jerónimo (prayers, songs and religious services), since the Chapter Room remained unfinished until the 19th century. Community prayer ...
The space of the traditional crossing (crossing the central aisles and the transept) here is replaced by a large space of C20xL30xH30m without any central support column, covered by a vault identical to the nave (mixture of vault of combados and f...
In the chapel to the left of the transept is buried Cardinal-King D. Henrique and those of the sons of D. Manuel I; the one on the right is the tomb of D. Sebastião and the descendants of D. João III. The church also houses, among others, the tomb...
The refectory was built between 1517 and 1518 by master Leonardo Vaz and his officers. With its polinervated and dejected vault, it clearly exemplifies the taste of the Manueline era. Beneath thick strands of stone, the walls are covered with an a...
The room itself never, however, had its intended use, as the vault and interior decoration only began to be completed in 1886. Two years later, the tomb of Alexandre Herculano (by Eduardo Augusto da Silva), which would be changed in 1940 and the t...
A neo-Manueline tomb by Luís Vaz de Camões, from 1898, scuplted by Costa Mota Tito (Nationalism, affirmation of national taste)..
Here in the sub-choir were placed, in the century. XIX, two tombs: on the north side, Vasco da Gama; on the south side, Luís de Camões. The vault, above Vasco da Gama's tomb. Vasco da Gama (1468? -1524), discovered the sea route to India, a fundam...
Vasco da Gama was born in Sines, perhaps in 1468, and died in India in December 1524, when he had only been viceroy for three months. He was the second son of Estêvão da Gama; the firstborn was Paulo da Gama, who accompanied his brother on the 149...
