Batalha Monastery is one of the most important Gothic sites in Portugal. Santa Maria da Vitória na Batalha is a Dominican monastery in the Portuguese town of Batalha, in the Distric of Leiria, Portugal. It is one of the best and original examples of Late Gothic architecture in Portugal, intermingled with the Manueline style. It amazes the onlooker with its profusion of gables, spires, pinnacles and buttresses. It has become a symbol of national pride. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (982x696, 195 KB) Mosteiro da Batalha, Portugal File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Battle of Aljubarrota Monastery of Batalha Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added...
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Batalha is a Portuguese town located in the District of Leiria, Pinhal Litoral subregion, Centre region, with 500 inhabitants. ...
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The monastery was built to thank the Virgin Mary for the Portuguese victory over the Castilians in the battle of Aljubarrota in 1385, fulfilling a promise of King D. João I. The battle put an end to the 1383-1385 crisis. Saint Mary and Saint Mary the Virgin both redirect here. ...
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Battle of Aljubarrota Conflict 1383–1385 Crisis Date August 14, 1385 Place Near Aljubarrota, central Portugal Result Decisive Portuguese victory The Battle of Aljubarrota took place on August 14, 1385, between the Portuguese forces commanded by D. João I of Portugal and his general Nuno Alvares Pereira, and...
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The monastery took two centuries to build, starting in 1386 and ending circa 1517, spanning the reign of seven kings. It took the efforts of fifteen architects (Mestre das Obras da Batalha), but for seven of them the title was no more than a honorary title bestowed on them. The construction required an enormous effort, using extraordinary resources of men and material. New techniques and artistic styles, hitherto unknown in Portugal, were deployed.
Work began in 1386 by the Portuguese architect Afonso Domingues who continued till 1402. He drew up the plan and many of the structures in the church and the cloister are his doing. His style was essentially Rayonnant Gothic, however there are influences from the English Perpendicular Period. There are similarities with the façade of York Minster and with the nave and transept of Canterbury Cathedral. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (960x1280, 495 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Monastery of Batalha Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used...
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He was succeeded by Huguet from 1402 to 1438. This architect, who was probably from Catalonian descent, introduced the Flamboyant Gothic style. This is manifest in the main façade, the dome of the square chapter house, the Founder's Chapel, the basic structure of the Imperfect Chapels and the north and east naves of the main cloister. He raised the height of the nave to 32.46 m. By altering the proportions he made the interior of the church even seem narrower. he also completed the transept but he died before he could finish the Imperfect Chapels. Huguet (? – 1438) (also written as Houet or Ouguete) was an architect living in the early 15 th century and active in Portugal, who introduced the Flamboyant Gothic style to Portugal. ...
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During the reign of Afonso V of Portugal, the Portuguese architect Fernão de Évora continued the construction between 1448 and 1477. He added the Cloister of Afonso V. He was succeeded by the architect Mateus Fernandes the Elder in the period 1480-1515. This master of the Manueline style worked on the portal of the Capelas Imperfeitas. Together with the famous Boytac he realized the tracery of the arcades in the Claustro Real. Work on the monastery continued into the reign of John III of Portugal with the addition of the fine Renaissance tribune (1532) by João de Castillo. The construction came to a halt, when the king decided to put all his efforts in the construction of the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon. Afonso V of Portugal (Portuguese pron. ...
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Jerónimos Monastery exterior The Jerónimos Monastery (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos) is located in the Belém district of Lisbon, Portugal. ...
The earthquake of 1755 did some damage, but much greater damage was inflicted by the Napoleonic troops of marshall Masséna, who sacked and burned the complex in 1810 and 1811. When the Dominicans were ousted from the complex in 1834, the church and monastery were abandoned and left to fall in ruins. André Masséna, Marshal of France André Masséna (May 6, 1758, Nice – April 4, 1817), Duke of Rivoli, Prince of Essling, was a French soldier in the armies of Napoleon and a Marshal of France. ...
In 1840 king Ferdinand II of Portugal started a restoration program of the abandoned monastery in ruins, saving this jewel of Gothic architecture. The restoration would last till the early years of the 20th century. It was declared a national monument in 1907. In 1980 the monastery was turned into a museum. Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (October 29, 1816 - December 15, 1885) was consort king of Portugal and Algarves following his marriage to Queen Maria II in 1836. ...
The Abbey of Batalha was added in 1983 by the UNESCO to its list of World Heritage sites.
Exterior The profusely ornate monastery has been put up in limestone from Porto de Mós, that has turned yellow ochre in the course of time. It has an original Portuguese style, a mixture of rayonnant and flamboyant Gothic architecture combined with strong elements of English Perpendicular, that finds few parallels in Europe. As all Dominican churches, this church lacks a bell tower. Limey shale overlaid by limestone. ...
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The western façade, facing the large square with the equestrian statue of general Nuno Alvares Pereira, is divided in three by buttressess and huge pilasters : the Founder's Chapel (Capelo do Fundador), the side wall of an aisle and the projecting portal. On the right side of this façade are the Imperfect Chapels (Capelas Imperfeitas), a separate octogonal structure added to the complex. Blessed Nuno Ãlvares (also spelled NunÃlvares) Pereira was a Portuguese general of great success with an decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugals independence of Castile. ...
 Tympanum and archivolt of the portal Off the east side, next to che church choir is the chapterhouse (Sala do Capitulo). The closier of King João I borders on the church and this chapterhouse. The structure continues into the cloister of King Afanso V (Claustro de D. Afonso V). On the northern side of the complex lies the Tomb of the Unknown Warriors. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 637 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Monastery of Batalha Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used...
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Portal The portal shows in the archivolt a profusion of 78 statues, divided over six rows, of Old Testament Kings, angels, prophets and saints, each under a baldachin. The splays on both sides display (inferior copies of) statues of the apostles, with one standing on a chained devil. The tympanum shows us Christ enthroned, sitting under a baldachin and flanked by the Four Evangelists, each with their own attribute. An archivolt is a group of mouldings (or other elements) surrounding an arched opening, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a rectangular opening. ...
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Nave and choir The church is vast and narrow (22m) in proportion to its height (32.4 m). The nave was raised to its present height by the second architect Huguet, altering the proportions of the church and giving it its present aspect. Its interior gives a sober and bare impression by its complete lack of ornaments and statues in the nave. The ribbed vaults, supported by compound piers, are closed by ornamented keystones. Light enters the church through ten stained-glass windows of the clerestory and the tall, traceried windows in the side walls and the transept and through the two rows of lanciform windows in the choir. The choir extends into two-bay transepts and consists of five apsidal chapels, with the central one projecting. Huguet (? – 1438) (also written as Houet or Ouguete) was an architect living in the early 15 th century and active in Portugal, who introduced the Flamboyant Gothic style to Portugal. ...
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Batalha probably had the first workshop for stained-glass windows in Portugal. The art was introduced in Portugal by German artists from the regions of Franconia and Nuremberg. The oldest windows date back to the end of the 1430s. But the Manueline, ogival stained-glass windows in the choir date from the 1520s and 1530s and were produced by Portuguese masters, among them Francisco Hernriques. They represent scenes from the lives of Christ and Maria : the Visitation, the Epiphany, the Flight to Egypt annd the Resurrection of Christ. The Franconian Rake is originally is a heraldic symbol of the bishops of Würzburg, who - though nominally Dukes of Franconia - only ruled in parts of Franconia. ...
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The architect Mateus Fernandes and his wife are buried under a marble tomb-slab close to the portal. The tomb of the knight Martim Gonçalves de Maçada, who saved the king's life during the battle at Aljubarrota, can be found close to the Capela do Fundador.
Founder's Chapel (Capela do Fundador) This square chapel was built between 1426 and 1434 by the architect Huguet on orders of King João I to become the first royal pantheon in Portugal. It gives a perfect synthesis between Flamboyant Gothic and the English Perpendicular style, as Philippa of Lancaster had brought along a few English architects. The chapel consists of three notional bays and a central octagon buttressed by eight piers, adorned with crockets, supporting deeply stilted arches. The joint tomb of king João I and his wife Philippa of Lancaster stands under the star vault of the octagon. Their statues lie in full regalia, with clasped hands (expressing the good relations between Portugal and England) and heads resting on a pillow, under elaborately ornamented baldachins. The coats of arms of the Houses of Aviz and Lancaster are put on top of these baldachins, together with the insignia of the order of the Garter. On the cover plate of the tomb are inscribed in repetition the motto of the king Por bem (For the better) and the queen Yl me plet (Il me plaît - I'm pleased). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 437 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Monastery of Batalha Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used...
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The insignia of a knight of the Order of the Garter. ...
This octagon is surrounded by an ambulatory with complex vaulting. At the south wall stand from left to right in a row of recessed arches the tombs of their for sons : prince D. Pedro, Henry the Navigator (under a baldachin), D. João and D. Fernando (also called Infante Santo). D. Fernando died in Fez as a prisoner of the Moors. The three tombs on the west wall are copies of the originals of King Afonso V (1433-1481), John II (1445-1495) (empty because the soldiers of Masséna have thrown away the bones) and his son D. Afonso (who died through an accident at the age of seventeen). The ambulatory (Med. ...
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Imperfect Chapels (Capelas Imperfeitas) As Capelas Imperfeitas (The Imperfect Chapels) remain as a testimony of the fact that the monastery was never actually finished. They form a separate octagonal structure tacked on the choir of the church (via a retrochoir) and only accessible from the outside. It was commissioned in 1437 by King Duarte I as a second royal mausoleum for himself and his descendants. But he and his queen Leonor of Aragon are the only ones buried here. The original design, begun by Huguet, was altered by successive architects, especially Mateus Fernandes (who is buried inside the church). The octagonal rotunda has seven radiating hexagonal chapels. In the corners of the chapels stand the massive unfinished buttresses, that were intended to support the vault. These pillars, designed by Diogo Boitac, are decorated with Manueline motives carved in stone. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1704x2272, 1240 KB) Mosteiro da Batalha (Unfinished Chapels) - Portugal Author: Raph Date: 6 August 2005 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Monastery of Batalha Metadata This file...
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Diogo Boitac was an influential architect and engineer of some of the most important Portuguese buildings, working in Portugal in the first half of the 16th century. ...
 The portal rises to a monumental fifteen metres. It was originally built in Gothic style, but was transformed beyond recognition by Mateus Fernandes into a masterpiece of Manueline style (completed in 1509). It is completely decorated into a lacework of sumptuous and stylized Manueline motives : armillary, spheres, winged angels, ropes, circles, tree stumps, clover-shaped arches and florid projections. This homage of King Manuel I to his predecessor King D. Duarte mentions his motto Leauté faray tam yaserei (I will always be loyal). This motto is then repeated more than two hundred times in the arches, vaults and pillars of the chapels. Image File history File linksMetadata Anjos_no_portal_das_Capelas_imperfeitas. ...
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The Renaissance loggia, added at about 1533, was probably meant for musicians. It is ascribed to the architect João de Castilho. Villa Godi by Palladio. ...
Chapter House (Sala do Capitulo) The Chapter House reminds the visitors of the military reason for its foundation: two sentinels guard the tombs of two unknown soldiers killed in World War I. The Portuguese Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (pt: Túmulo do Soldado Desconhecido) is located at the Batalha Monastery, near Leiria. ...
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This square room is especially notable for its star vault lacking a central support and spanning a space of 19 m square. This was such a daring concept at the time that prisoners, condemned to death, had to perform the task. The task was completed after two failed attempts. When the last scaffolds were removed, it is said that Huguet spent the night under the vault to silence his critics.
The stained-glass Renaissance window in the east wall dates from 1508. It depicts scenes of the Passion and is attributed to the Portuguese painters Master João and Francisco Henriques.
Cloister of King João I (Claustro Real)
 Close-up of the Manueline style in a capital - Cross of the Order of Christ This cloister was not part of the original project. It was built under the architect Fernão de Évora between 1448 and 1477. Its sober outward appearance is in stark contrast with the Flamboyant Gothic style of the church. The carved tracery decoration in Gothic style (including quatrefoils, fleurs-de-lis and rosettes) by Huguet in the ambulatory forms a successful combination with the Manueline style in the arcade screens, added later by Mateus Fernandes. Two different patterns alternate, one with the cross of the Order of Christ, the other with armillaries. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (480x640, 162 KB) Capitel com a Cruz de Cristo, Mosteiro da Batalha Source: Photo by: Manuel Anastácio File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Monastery of Batalha...
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The colonnettes, supporting these intricate arcade screens, are decorated with spiral motives, armillaries, lotus blossoms, briar branches, pearls and shells and exotic vegetation.
Lavabo (Lavatório) Situated in the northwestern corner of the Claustro Real, this work of Mateus Fernandes is of a beauty and harmony difficult to describe. It consists of a fountain and two smaller basins above. The whole is bathed in a golden glow seeping through the intricate tracery of the arches around it.
Cloister of King Afonso V (Claustro de D. Afonso V) This sober cloister next to the Claustro Real was built in conventional Gothic style with double pointed arches. It was constructed in the second half of the 15th century by the architect Fernão de Évora. It stands in contrast with the Manueline flamboyance of the somewhat larger Claustro Real. The keystones in the vault carry the coat-of-arms of D. Duarte I and Afonso V.
Conclusion The monastery stands up from all the village, and although some dislike the implantation of new hotels by its side, they can always enjoy the interesting homes of the 18th century, the "guillotine" windows and the magnificent Manueline portal of the main Church.It is among one of the most fascinating pieces of Gothic and Manueline architecture within the country. The 4-star Manor House Hotel at Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England. ...
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References - Monastery of Batalha - English guide; July 2005 (on sale in the museum)
- Turner, J. - Grove's Dictionary of Art - MacMillan Publishers Ltd., 1996; ISBN 0-19-517068-7
- The Rough Guide to Portugal - 11th edition March 2005 - ISBN 1-84353-438-X
- Rentes de Carvalho J. - Portugal, um guia para amigos - In Dutch translation : Portugal - De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam; ninth edition August 1999 ISBN 90-295-3466-4
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