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manueline (mənwĕl`ēn, –īn), sumptuous, composite Portuguese style of architectural ornamentation of the early 16th cent. It combined contemporary Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Flemish elements and was named for King Manuel I of Portugal (reigned 1495–1521). The Chapter House of the Convent of Christ at Tomar, Portugal (early 16th cent.), with its large-scale windows surrounded with sculptured organic and twisted rope forms, is the major monument of the manueline style. The style was extended to the decorative arts and spread to Spain, Mexico, and India.
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There is even a tile museum in Lisbon - the Museu Nacional do Azulejo - housed in the cloisters of a Manueline convent, which contains some extraordinary examples of the art that has made such a poetic contribution to Portugal's buildings and cities.
In a rich riot of colour and ornament, Portuguese Azulejos animate ... by Slessor, Catherine / The Architectural Review
However, Islamic sources and the Iberian Peninsula's own heritage of Moorish and Gothic monuments (notably the exceptional late Gothic and Manueline ribbed vaults and cloisters of the monastery of Batalha or the Jeronimos in Lisbon) have furnished Rewal with equally significant and appropriate design precedents.
Islam in Iberia by Meade, Martin / The Architectural Review
The early sixteenth-century Manueline architecture of the Jeronimos monastery was one of the results of the wealth they brought back from the Indies: an amazing, wildly optimistic cocktail of very late Gothic, proto-Renaissance and Oriental themes without parallel in the world then or since.
Belem bastion by Davey, Peter / The Architectural Review
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