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A polychrome granite statue (13th century) of Saint Francis of Assisi, standing inside the church next to the entrance within a Baroque altarpiece, is a remnant of the first St Francis church, replaced after 1383 by the present structure. During the 15th and 16th centuries several noble families chose St Francis as their pantheon.
The cathedral is flanked by two square towers, each supported with two buttresses and crowned with a cupola. The façade lacks decoration and is rather architecturally heterogeneous. It shows a Baroque porch and a beautiful Romanesque rose window under a crenellated arch, giving the impression of a fortified church. Altar area, Sé do Porto
Oporto Cathedral – main altar . Igreja de Santo Idelfonso no Porto – main altar. Church of Monastery of São Bento da Vitória in Oporto – main altar. Church of São Francisco (Porto) – a golden cave. Church of Santa Clara (Porto) – a golden cave. Braga Cathedral – monumental organs. Mosteiro de Jesus of Aveiro.
In the time of Rodrigo Pinheiro, a learned humanist, Porto was visited by St. Francis Borgia and the Jesuits established themselves in the city. Aires da Silva, ex-rector of Coimbra University, after ruling four years, fell in the battle of Alcácer Quibir in 1578 with King Sebastião. Simão Pereira was followed by the Franciscan Frei Marcos ...
Lavinia Fontana, did Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, (1579, Diocesan Seminary, Bologna) and work for Pope Paul V [222] Damià Forment or "Damian Forment", Spanish Renaissance sculptor known for cathedral work [223] [224] Jean Fouquet, religious works include the Pieta of Nouans in the Church of Nouans-les-Fontaines [225] [226]
In the first several centuries of large Christian churches being built, the altar tended to be further forward (towards the congregation) in the sanctuary than in the later Middles Ages (a position to which it returned in the 20th century) and a large altarpiece would often have blocked the view of a bishop's throne and other celebrants, so decoration was concentrated on other places, with ...
The main chapel was rebuilt in Mannerist style and features a gilt-woodwork Baroque-Rococo altarpiece designed by famed sculptor Santos Pacheco, who was also responsible for the main altarpiece of Porto Cathedral. The altarpiece incorporates a Holy Mary statue from the 14th century and was carved between 1729 and 1733 by Francisco Machado.
Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Saint Francis of Assisi, 1235. Bonaventura Berlinghieri (fl. 1228–1274) was an Italian painter from Lucca, Italy, of the Gothic period. He was son of painter Berlinghiero Berlinghieri and brother of Barone and Marco Berlinghieri. His work is reported to have flourished in between the years AD 1235 and AD 1244 [1].