The Architect · Mariana · Lisbon
Mosteiro dos Jerónimos
This is where I understood Manueline: stone pretending to be rigging and rope. The cloister is the finest room in Portugal.
The 1500s Manueline masterwork — a nave held on impossibly thin palm-tree columns and a cloister carved like rope and coral.
— Mariana, The Architect
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