Gli angeli sostengono dolcemente la testa e le spalle coronate di Dom Pedro i (re Pietro i di Portogallo): Formato quadrato dettaglio di recumbent effigy sulla tomba gotica di marmo ornata metà-1300s nella chiesa dell'ex monastero cistercense di Santa Maria ad Alcobaca, Centro, Portogallo. Pedro si trova di fronte alla tomba della sua padrona assassinata, Inês de Castro (1325-1355).
4900 x 4900 px | 41,5 x 41,5 cm | 16,3 x 16,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
5 giugno 2013
Ubicazione:
Alcobaça, Centro, Portugal.
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Alcobaça, Centro, Portugal: angels lift their eyes to heaven as they gently cradle the marble crowned head and sculpted recumbent effigy of Dom Pedro I (King Peter I of Portugal). The 14th century monarch, who reigned for ten years, lies on his elaborate Gothic tomb in the transept of the church of the Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça, the former Cistercian royal monastery founded in 1153 by Afonso I, the first King of Portugal. The angels supporting his head and shoulders seen in this square format detail sustained damage from French Napoleonic troops fighting the early-1800s Peninsula War. Pedro commissioned both his own tomb and that of his murdered mistress, Inês de Castro (born 1325). Their effigies lie facing each other, Pedro in the south transept and Inês in the north, because Pedro wanted them to be able to see each other when they rose from their graves on Judgement Day. A Portuguese inscription on Pedro’s sarcophagus reads “Até o fim do mundo..." (Until the end of the world…). Pedro (1320-1367) married Constance of Castile, but then embarked on a long love affair with Inês, her aristocratic lady-in-waiting. After Constance died in 1349, Pedro’s father, Afonso IV, banished Inês from court and then ordered her assassination. She was beheaded in front of her young child in 1355. When Pedro became king two years later, he exacted a gruesome revenge on her killers and ordered his lover’s remains to be transferred to her tomb at Alcobaça. According to popular (but probably false) legend, he had her exhumed corpse crowned as queen and ordered the entire court to swear allegiance to her and kiss her decomposing hand. The monastery is the burial place of many of Portugal’s monarchs. The last monk left in 1834 and the entire monastic complex is now protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. D1294.B5437.A
