Through Portugal . ured the life-sized figure of a man,bearing upon his breast a cartouche with theGothic letters C. C. E. cut upon it, representing,as local antiquarians insist, the figure of thetwelfth-century architect of the building, MartinDominguez, and the coats-of-arms and sepulchralfigures in chapels and on walls are many. Oneflorid Gothic sarcophagus in the south transeptis that of Andre de Resende, a relative of Garciade Resende, the earliest Portuguese historian,whose house, with its beautiful Manueline win-dows, still stands in Evora. The chapels on eachside of the cathedral are m
Through Portugal . ured the life-sized figure of a man,bearing upon his breast a cartouche with theGothic letters C. C. E. cut upon it, representing,as local antiquarians insist, the figure of thetwelfth-century architect of the building, MartinDominguez, and the coats-of-arms and sepulchralfigures in chapels and on walls are many. Oneflorid Gothic sarcophagus in the south transeptis that of Andre de Resende, a relative of Garciade Resende, the earliest Portuguese historian,whose house, with its beautiful Manueline win-dows, still stands in Evora. The chapels on eachside of the cathedral are much disfigured bytawdry decorations and curly gilt wood carvings,but several have finely painted altar-pieces, badlylit and uncared for; and one altar. Our Lady ofthe Angel, against a pillar in the nave, evidentlymuch venerated, for it is hung all over withvotive offerings, is grotesquely hideous, with itsill-carved, big, staring doll upon a gilt monstrosityof a stand. The little choir loft over the west end of 296. The Cathedral, Evoka. SETUBAL, TROYA, AND EVORA the nave, like that at Braga, is filled withfinely carved oaken choir-stalls, and the epis-copal throne, with Scripture scenes in high reliefcarved upon the panelling, probably French orItalian work of the Renaissance period. TheEborenses complain that the French plunderedthe cathedral of most of its valuable treasures ;but the church plate and vestments are still ofvery great richness, and I was much struck by agreat jewelled altar cross said to contain afragment of the True Cross. The preciousstones upon it amount altogether to 1425, ofwhich 840 are diamonds; and a chalice of enameland gold of the sixteenth century is a veritablething of beauty. The chancel and high altarof the eighteenth century, though of preciousmarbles, are quite out of keeping with the church,and I was glad to turn away from them andlinger in the pretty little ruined cloister of themonks, of simple devotional Gothic. But the exterior of the old
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