The Manueline: Portuguese Art and Architecture during the Great Discoveries

This text reveals the splendours of an era that skilfully brought Portugal into the Modern Age.

Alongside the formidable adventures of the Great Maritime Discoveries, King Manuel I (1469-1521) included the related fields of both Church and State in artistic activities that were without precedent.

What resulted was a style which was not only historically unique, but which was emblematic of its country of origin and of the monarch after which it was named.