Late Gothic architecture

Portugal

Manuel I (1495–1521) pushed the completion of the rotunda at Batalha, adding seven radial chapels and a monumental portal sculpted by Mateus Fernandes. His reign saw the Manueline style, a variant of Late Gothic fuelled by economic prosperity and the cultural context of the Age of Discovery. Manueline articulated the decorative exuberance of Late Gothic with a naturalist, heraldic, and maritime iconography. The paradigmatic expression of the style is the Chapter House window of the Convent of Christ in Tomar (1510–1514), designed by Diogo de Arruda. Other important examples include the Jerónimos Monastery and the Belém Tower in Lisbon. As well as the Manueline style, late Gothic architecture in Portugal included Mudéjar elements, as at Sintra Royal Palace.