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richness and elaboration. Thissame extravagance of gilding and of carving also overtookaltar and reredos. Now almost every church is full of hugemasses of gilt wood, in which hardly one square inch has beenleft uncarved ; sometimes, if there is nothing else, and thewhole church—walls and ceiling… … FIG. 51.COIMBRA. Hall of University. EARLY MANOELINO 143 CHAPTER X EARLY MANOELINO Affonso v., the African, had died and been succeeded by hisson Joao 11. in 1487. Joao tried, not without success, to playthe part of Louis xi. of France and by a judicious choice ofvictims (he had the duke of…
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