Tag: Ramalho Ortigão
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Legacy and Contemporary of Ramalho's Thought
When The Cult of Art in Portugal was published in 1896, it had all the characteristics of being just another one of those books that shake consciences for a brief …
The Unfinished Chapels: An Incomplete Poem in Stone
If the Batalha Monastery was, for Ramalho Ortigão, "the great marble book, the immortal poem, the Portuguese Divine Comedy," then the Unfinished Chapels were the most mysterious and disturbing canto …
Ramalho's Heritage Pedagogy
But the most original—and perhaps most current—aspect of Ramalho Ortigão's thought resided in his pedagogical conception of heritage. For him, the question was not limited to technical issues of conservation …
Ramalho and the Batalha Monastery as a Case Study
Half a century after King Ferdinand II's visit, Ramalho Ortigão found himself before the same monument, but at an even more critical phase of its history.
The Metaphor of Threatened Heritage
The contrast was devastating. On one side, the glory of the foundation: a victorious king, the greatest architects of Europe summoned, the entire nation committed to a work that would …
The Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória: Historical and Symbolic Context
Among all Portuguese monuments, the Batalha Monastery occupied, for Ramalho Ortigão, a singular and almost sacred place.
Cloisters of Celas Convent
When Ramalho Ortigão visited the Convent of Celas in the late 19th century, the small Cistercian monastery founded by D. Sancha, daughter of King Sancho I, faced an unprecedented threat: …
A Journey on the Tagus
When the steamer departs from Cais do Sodré toward Cascais on a September morning in 1876, the Tagus stretches before the passengers "in all its majesty, like a small Mediterranean," …
Ramalho Ortigão: A Life Between Letters and Travel
<p>When José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão died in 1915, at the age of 79, the journey of one of the most multifaceted figures of nineteenth-century Portuguese culture came to an end.</p>
Largo dos Jerónimos
<p>When Ramalho Ortigão writes about the Jerónimos at the end of the nineteenth century, the monument faces a crucial question: what destination to give to the building annexed to the …
Ramalho Ortigão: A Defender of Porto's Heritage
Between medieval Porto and the cosmopolitan Porto of the late 19th century unfolded a tension that Ramalho Ortigão witnessed with a simultaneously admiring and critical gaze: the progressive destruction of …
Ramalho Ortigão: Porto as Memory and Art
<p>As we traverse the vast gallery of paintings that Ramalho Ortigão created of nineteenth-century Porto, one conclusion imposes itself: the descriptions of his native city gained in density and beauty …