3935 x 5902 px | 33,3 x 50 cm | 13,1 x 19,7 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
8 novembre 2015
Lieu:
Porto, Portugal
Informations supplémentaires:
The Holy House of Mercy of Porto was established in 1502, following a letter that the king D. Manuel I have written in 1499 to the most influential people of the city, in which they recommended the creation of a brotherhood similar to that of Lisbon, established the previous year. Initially, the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Mercy settled in St. James Chapel in the old cloister of the Cathedral of Porto; in 1555 , given the movement of Flores Street, opened by King Manuel a few years earlier, they moved in the Order of the House , starting in the same year the construction of its church, which was blessed in December of of 13 1559 , by D . Rodrigo Pinheiro, still incomplete: the chancel was built only in 1584, receiving the Blessed Sacrament in 1590. In 1628, it was internally lined with tiles made in Lisbon, few of which have come down to the present day. The church was later neglected for a long time and threatened to ruin. Only during the eighteenth century it is that attention turned to the reconstruction of the church. On the day of February of 7 1740, the Bureau of the Holy House of Mercy consulting various experts, including Nasoni, to give its opinion on the security status of the church. But the church was not rebuilt by Nasoni in 1748 in style baroque with forms of Rococo, following the fall Dome church, with several proposals artist and was chosen the simplest, yet one of the most lush level sculpture. In 2015 it may now be visited as part of the Mercy of Porto Museum . One can visit the Choir, Central Nave and side dependencies (sacristy and others).
