The Cathedral of Évora ( pt, Sé de Évora) is a
Roman Catholic
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church in the city of
Évora
Évora ( , ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. It has 53,591 inhabitants (2021), in an area of 1307.08 km2. It is the historic capital of the Alentejo and serves as the seat of the Évora District.
Due to its well-preserved old to ...
, Portugal. It is one of the oldest and most important local monuments, lying on the highest spot of the city. It is part of the historical city centre, and the seat of the
Archdiocese of Evora.
It was declared a
World Heritage Site
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by
UNESCO
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in 1988.
Historic Centre of Évora - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
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History
Évora
Évora ( , ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. It has 53,591 inhabitants (2021), in an area of 1307.08 km2. It is the historic capital of the Alentejo and serves as the seat of the Évora District.
Due to its well-preserved old to ...
was definitively reconquered from Arab
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hands in 1166 by Geraldo Sem Pavor (Gerald the Fearless), and soon afterwards the new Christian rulers of the city began to build a cathedral
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, dedicated to the Virgin Mary
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. This first building, built between 1186 and 1204, was very modest and was enlarged circa 1280-1340, this time in early Gothic
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style. The cathedral received several valuable additions through time, such as the Gothic cloisters
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(14th century), the Manueline
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chapel of the Esporão (early 16th century) and a new, magnificent main chapel in baroque
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style (first half of the 18th century). It is the largest of the mediaeval
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cathedrals in Portugal, and one of its best examples of Gothic architecture
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.
It is common belief that flags of the fleet of Vasco da Gama
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, on his first expedition to the Orient, were blessed in the first presbytery of the cathedral in 1497.
The most important historical figure associated with the cathedral was Cardinal-King Henrique
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(1512–1580), who was archbishop and cardinal of Évora. Cardinal Henrique, who was brother of King John III, had to succeed D. Sebastião as King of Portugal after his death in the Battle of Alcácer-Quibir. The Cardinal-King ruled only between 1578 and 1580.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Cathedral of Évora was the setting of the so-called ''School of Évora'' of polyphony
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, which played an important role in the music history of Portugal
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Medieval music Liturgical repertoire
In the early days of the ...
. Composers related to the Cathedral include Mateus de Aranda Mateus may refer to:
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and Manuel Mendes
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and his pupils Duarte Lobo
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and Filipe de Magalhães Filipe de Magalhães (c. 1571–1652) was a Portuguese composer of sacred polyphony.
Life
Filipe de Magalhães was born in Azeitão, Portugal, in 1571. He studied music at the Cathedral of Évora with Manuel Mendes where he was a colleague of ...
.
Art and architecture
Exterior
The main façade of Évora Cathedral, built with rose granite
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, resembles that of Lisbon Cathedral
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. Its two massive towers, completed in the 16th century, flank a narthex
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(entrance gallery) which encloses the main portal.
Over the narthex there is a huge window with Gothic
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tracery
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that illuminates the interior. Each tower has a different conical spire
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, one of them covered with mediaeval coloured tile
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s. Like other Portuguese churches of the time, the outer walls of Évora Cathedral are decorated with battlement
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s, as well as decorative arcaded corbel
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s.
The lantern tower
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over the crossing is very picturesque. It has a row of windows that bathe the transept
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area with light. Its spire
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, as well as spire of the tower above the crossing of the transept
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, is surrounded by six turret
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s, and each turret is a miniature copy of the tower itself. The design of the tower resembles that of other churches in the Duero valley: the Zamora Cathedral
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and the of the Old Cathedral of Salamanca
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It was founded by Bis ...
, Santa María in Toro.
Miguel Sobrino
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has proposed the disappeared Romanesque dome over the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
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as the model.
The ogival
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main portal is a masterpiece of Portuguese Gothic sculpture. The marble columns are occupied by huge statues of the Apostles
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executed in the 1330s, perhaps by sculptors Master Pero (''Mestre Pero'') and Telo Garcia. It is the best of its kind in Portugal. Such free-standing Gothic sculptures are rather rare in Portugal. They are usually associated with memorial graves.
Interior
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of Lisbon Cathedral
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, which had been built in the second half of the 12th century in Romanesque style. Like that church, the builders of Évora Cathedral designed a Latin cross
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church with a transept
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, a nave
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higher than its two aisle
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s, a triforium
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(arched gallery over the central aisle) and an apse
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with three chapels. The crossing of the transept is topped by a dome
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, supported by pendentives, and an octagonal lantern
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. The transepts are lighted by two Gothic rose window
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s, one with the morning star and the other with the mystical rose.
The large nave has a pointed barrel vault
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. The interior space is accentuated by the use of white mortar on the bare high walls, pillars and vaults.
In the entrance, in the first two bays, there is a Manueline high choir by architect ''Diogo de Arruda
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'' (early 16th century), with fine Gothic vaulting. The high choir has Mannerist
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-style choir stalls carved on oak in 1562 by sculptors from Antwerp
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s'' and 16th century Manueline wrought-iron railings.
In the middle of the central nave there is a large Baroque altar with a polychrome Gothic statue of a pregnant Virgin Mary
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(''Nossa Senhora do O'') (15th century); facing the Virgin there is a polychrome Renaissance
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statue of the Archangel Gabriel
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, attributed to Olivier of Ghent (16th century).
The main chapel was totally rebuilt between 1718 and 1746, a work sponsored by King John V. The architect in charge was João Frederico Ludovice
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From Hohnehart to Rome
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, a German
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who was royal architect and who had previously designed the Monastery of Mafra. The style favoured by the King and his architect was Roman baroque, with polychrome marble decoration (green marble from Italy
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, white marble from Montes Claros, red and black marble from Sintra
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) and painted altars. Although its style does not really fit into the mediaeval interior of the cathedral, the main chapel is nevertheless an elegant baroque masterpiece. The main altar has sculptural decoration by the Italian '' Antonio Bellini''. Portuguese sculptor ''Manuel Dias'' is the author of the crucified Jesus over the altar, based on a drawing by Portuguese painter ''Vieira Lusitano
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Biography
His father was a maker of socks and stockings. ''. The painting of the main altar was executed by the Italian ''Agostino Masucci
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Biography
Born in Rome, he initially apprenticed with Andrea Procaccino, and then became a member of the studio of Carlo Maratta. He joi ...
''.
The 13 panels of the original painted Flemish
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retable of the main chapel can be seen in the Évora Museum. The retable was commissioned around 1500 to a workshop in Bruges
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by bishop Afonso de Portugal.
The chapel (''Capela do Esporão'') in the left transept was rebuilt in the 1520s in Manueline
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style. It now has a beautiful Renaissance marble portal with a marble sculpture by Nicolau Chanterene
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, Gothic vaulting and a Mannerist
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altar with the painting "Descent from the Cross" by '' Francisco Nunes'' (c.1620). The chapel in the right transept houses the tomb of the humanist André de Resende
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(16th century). In these chapels are also buried João Mendes de Vasconcelos, Governor of Luanda
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during the reign of Manuel I, and of Álvaro da Costa, ambassador and armorer of King Manuel.
Cloisters
The cloisters
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of the cathedral were built between 1317 and 1340 in Gothic style, and again shows the influence of the cloisters of Lisbon Cathedral
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. Despite the use of Late-Gothic tracery
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, the use of granite in its construction gives it a heavy-looking overall impression.
Each corner of the cloister gallery has a marble Gothic statue of one of the Four Evangelists. The ''Capela do Fundador'', the funerary chapel of bishop D. Pedro, builder of the cloisters, features his tomb with recumbent figure, a statue of the Archangel Gabriel and a polychromed statue of Mary. The upper storey of the cloisters, reachable via a spiral staircase, offers a grand view of the cathedral and the surrounding landscape.
Cathedral Museum
Exhibits in the cathedral museum include:
*the sceptre of Cardinal-King Henrique
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, a 16th-century goldsmith
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work in Manueline style
*a puzzle-like, 12-inch-high Gothic ivory statue of Mary, whose midriff opens up into a triptych with nine scenes of her life – a French work of art from the 13th century. The head of the statue is a replica from the 16th century.
*the 17th-century reliquary of ''Santo Lenho'' (holy wood), supposedly containing pieces of Christ's Cross, of gilded silver and polychromed enamel, encrusted with 1426 true gems (840 diamonds, 402 rubies, 180 emeralds, two sapphires, one hyacinth and one cameo).
*a collection of canonicals from the 17th and the 18th centuries.
Some paintings in the collection are worthwhile, especially those by Gregório Lopes
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Gregório Lopes was educated in the workshop of Jorge Afonso, the court painter of King Manuel I. Later he himself became court painter f ...
, Cristóvão de Figueiredo
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Like many other important painters of the time, Cristóvão de Figueiredo was a pupil of Master Jorge Afonso, in Lisbon, in the early 16th century. He later worked together wi ...
and Garcia Fernandes
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In the 1530s he worked ...
.
Notes
References
*Portuguese Institute for Architectural Heritag
*General Bureau for National Buildings and Monuments (Portugal
* Turner, J. - Grove Dictionary of Art
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- Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1996;
*The Rough Guide to Portugal - 11th edition March 2005 -
*Rentes de Carvalho J. - Portugal, um guia para amigos - In Dutch translation : Portugal - De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam; ninth edition August 1999
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