Manueline

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Manueline. Portuguese late-Gothic style of the reign of King Manuel I (1495–1521). Highly decorative, it included ropes, corals, twisted piers, and the Cross of the Military Order of Christ, best seen at the Cristo Monastery at Tomar (from 1510).

Bibliography

Cruickshank (ed.) (1996);
Lewis & and Darley (1986);
D. Watkin (1986)

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