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Raul Lino ComC GOSE ComCS (21 November 1879 – 13 July 1974) was a Portuguese architect, designer, architectural theorist, and writer.Lino's architectural theses and studies revolved around the theory of the Casa Portuguesa (Portuguese: Portuguese house), an idealized concept of Portuguese residential architecture, planning, and lifestyle.
The Order of Merit of the Portuguese Royal House (Portuguese: Ordem do Mérito da Casa Real Portuguesa or Ordem do Mérito da Causa Monárquica) is a dynastic order of knighthood for extraordinary services rendered to the Portuguese Royal House and for outstanding Merit in the Monarchist Cause. [1] [2] [3]
Henry, Count of Portugal, a grandson in the senior line of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, had joined the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula in the late 11th century. After conquering parts of Galicia and northern Portugal on behalf of Alfonso VI of León, he married Alfonso's illegitimate daughter, Teresa, and was given the County of Portugal as a fief under the Kingdom of León.
The building remained in private hands until the 1960s, when it was acquired by the municipal council of Lisbon. The council commissioned architect Raul Lino to adapt the Casa dos Bicos, then known as the Casa de Goa, for use as a museum. The project was still unrealized by 1979, and passed to architects José Daniel Santa-Rita Fernandes and ...
This member of the Portuguese royal family was known as the Lord of the House of the Infantado (Senhor da Casa do Infantado) or simply the Lord of the Infantado (Senhor do Infantado). The measure was intended to "perpetuate and extend as much as possible the blood of the royal family."
D. António Caetano de Sousa, História Genealógica da Casa Real Portuguesa, Atlântida-Livraria Editora, Lda, 2ª Edição, Coimbra, 1946. Fernandes, A. de Almeida (1960). A ação das linhagens no repovoamento. Porto: [s.n.] Mattoso, José (1994). A Nobreza Medieval Portuguesa - A Família e o Poder. Lisboa: Editorial Estampa. ISBN 972-33-0993-9
The House of Aviz (Portuguese: Casa de Avis), also known as the Joanine Dynasty (Dinastia Joanina), was a dynasty of Portuguese origin which flourished during the Renaissance and the period of the Portuguese discoveries, when Portugal expanded its power globally.
A depiction of how the palace was originally meant to look like once completed (detail of an 1802 portrait of the Prince Regent, by Domingos Sequeira). A plan of the Ajuda Palace (1866), by the Association of Portuguese Civil Architects An 1870 illustration of the Ajuda Palace, during its time as residence to the royal family of King Luís