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    of Santa Bárbara (Portuguese: Igreja de Santa Bárbara) is a Roman Catholic church in the civil parish of Santa Bárbara, municipality of Vila do Porto, in...
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    Monastery of Santa Maria de Pombeiro (Portuguese: Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Pombeiro), shortened to Monastery of Pombeiro, is a monastery in the civil parish...
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    Arouca Abbey (category Cistercian monasteries in Portugal)
    (Portuguese: Mosteiro de Arouca), was a Cistercian monastery of women dating from the 10th century. It is located in Arouca, now in the Porto metropolitan area...
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    located in the village of Anjos, on the northcoast of the civil parish of Vila do Porto (municipality of the same name), on the island of Santa Maria in the...
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    em Porto Alegre: do arcaísmo ao barroco". Jornada de Pesquisa e Extensão. ULBRA/Santa Maria. Goldman, Carlos Henrique (2004). A casa moderna em Porto Alegre...
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    Ñuflo de Chávez, Santa Cruz, Bolivia Detail of the altar retable at San Miguel de Velasco, Santa Cruz Sepé Tiaraju, the leader of the Guaraní rebels, in the...
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    Count of Santa Cruz), who contributed a retable and donated an image of Senhora do Pilar. Church of São Pedro (Portuguese: Igreja Paroquial de Ponta Delgada/Igreja...
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    supported by beam timbers. The high altar is decorated in a carved-wooden retable, gilded in gold, with an image of Saint Peter over the altar. The naves...
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    Braga (redirect from Município de Braga)
    Santa Maria (Portuguese: Igreja Paroquial de Ferreiros/Igreja de Santa Maria), constructed in 1560, under the orders of Archbishop Bartolomeu dos Mártires...
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    Santo Espírito (category Freguesias of Vila do Porto)
    (Portuguese: Ermida de Nossa Senhora da Glória), situated in the hilltop community of Glória, the small chapel is marked by a sculpted stone retable which is a...
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    Parish Church of Our Lady of Purification (category Roman Catholic churches in Bahia)
    were walled in. The Portuguese Crown donated 6,000 cruzados for the construction of the retable in 1729. A inspection of the church in 1730 revealed...
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    Church of Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho (category Buildings and structures in Vila do Porto)
    de Santa Maria, em Verso (in Portuguese), Vila do Porto (Azores), Portugal: Câmara Municipal de Vila do Porto Figueiredo, Jaime de. (1990), Ilha de Gonçalo...
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    killer Mystic Bárbara de Santo Domingo Spain portal Azulejo Cadillac Seville, a car that was named after the city Church of Santa Maria la Blanca (Seville)...
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    Church and Convent of Our Lady of the Conception of Lapa (category Roman Catholic churches in Salvador, Bahia)
    João de Miranda Ribeiro, originally from Porto, was admitted to the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Salvador in 1717, a charitable fraternity, as a "minor"...
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    not mentioned in writings until a grant by King Afonso III to his chancellor, D. Estevão (in a document sent to the people of Santa Maria de Faro), dated...
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    Church of São Luís (Pinhel) (category Roman Catholic churches completed in 1596)
    The retable of the main altar in gilded carvings and painted board depicting Christ. Conceição, Margarida (1992), SIPA (ed.), Mosteiro de São Luís de Pinhel/Igreja...
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    Corsica Linea; they link the Sardinian seaports of Porto Torres, Olbia, Golfo Aranci, Arbatax, Santa Teresa Gallura and Cagliari with Civitavecchia, Genoa...
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    of the most notable makers of retables was Gil de Siloé, and a great representative of independent statuary was Juan de Juni. Portugal had its cycle beginning...
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    Marquess of Gouvêa and 6th Count of Santa Cruz, and his wife. D. Maria Rosa de Távora. She died six years later in childbirth, having borne five children...
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    165-194. Maria João Pereira Coutinho, “Os embutidos de mármore no património artístico da Misericórdia de Lisboa” in Património Arquitectónico. 1: Santa Casa...
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    Baroque architecture (category 18th century in the arts)
    (1656–57). In Venice, High Baroque works included Santa Maria della Salute by Baldassare Longhena. Examples in France included the Pavillon de l’Horloge...
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    constructed, with collateral retables, as well as a pulpit in front of the Chaepl of Santo Cristo. In 1626, a cross was constructed in Trancoso. The principal...
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    Castro Verde (category Towns in Portugal)
    each year), recognizable for the painted vaulted retable; Chapel of São Pedro das Cabeças (Ermida de São Pedro das Cabeça), 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from...
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    Ca' Rezzonico (category Art museums and galleries in Venice)
    di gentiluomo in parrucca - Sebastiano Bombelli Pastorale - Francesco Zuccarelli La Sagra di Santa Marta - Gaspare Diziani Veduta di porto fluviale - Luca...
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  • Monastery of the Mónicas (category 1586 establishments in Europe)
    consecrated in 1586. Before 1680, Manuel João Fonseca had completed the retable dedicated to Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Our Lady of the Rosary). At the...
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    The church of Santa Maria de Varzim, the mother church was located in the old town, and was, in the 18th century, outside of Póvoa de Varzim's civic...
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    Grace, in Olinda Altar belonging to the former Jesuit College in Rio de Janeiro removed to the Church of Our Lady of Good Success Main retable (late 17th...
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    of Póvoa de Varzim (the former Santa Maria de Varzim church that later became known as Misericórdia Church) and some of the stonework used in the new building...
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    and 14 chickens in payment. By 1702, this meager supported allowed, along with donations the renovation of the retable of the chapel. In 1898, the chapel...
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    Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição Velha (category Gothic architecture in Portugal)
    columns in the city of Lisbon. In 1684, a new collection/orphanage was established in the east wing of the church. Father Agostinho de Santa Maria, writing...
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