O Fomento de obras em Évora à época do Cardeal D. Henrique, depois de 1550: Perspetivação dos seus aspetos de génese e distinção edificatória

Abstract

After the acknowledgement of Évora as Archdiocese and the elevation of the future Cardinal-King D. Henrique de Avis as his first Archbishop in 1540, a renewed architectonical promotion took place according to the will of the new appointed prelate. Massive works appeared then, as the Saint Anton Church built all along the 1550s or the wide and ample Espirito Santo College and its Church by the end of the 1560s. Following Counter-Reformation determinations, such promotion showed a stylistic turn that moved away from the Renaissance audacity, displaying also one of the first assertions of the Portuguese Plain-style in architecture. Providing that the very first local examples of such innovative programmes came to compose a significant urban image, these new models came to be replicated in other projects of the time, as is the purpose to speak of in the present approach.