Góthic

Santarém, Capital of Gothic

Resulting from the evolution of Romanesque art, Gothic art was essentially an art of the city, which allowed a later evolution to Renaissance art. Started in 13th century Europe, it contributed to a new way of seeing the world, to a new relationship between the divine and the human.

Starting from a renovating architecture that had been initiated by the Cistercian order as a counterpoint to that of Cluny, Gothic art chose the architect as its leading figure. A sage, a student of geometry, much more than the simple craftsman of simple forms in Romanesque times.

In the case of Santarém, it was a primary and functional Gothic that was applied to religious buildings, especially in the 13th century. He was still a goth with a mendicant expression, given that his main promoters were precisely those orders. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the renewal of religious ideals and royal patronage were responsible for the evolution of Gothic, although the influences of the architects and masters of the monastery of Batalha were decisive.