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14-OCT-2008 JAM & DRW

Batalha Monastery, Portugal

This amazingly refined style of limestone carving came to be known as “Plateresque” -- inspired by the work of silversmiths. (“Plata” = silver.)
Note the Manueline armillary sphere in the upper right.

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