Talk:Pombaline style

Latest comment: 7 years ago by Martin of Sheffield in topic Palaces

Question edit

Did this style have any influence in Portugal's colonies? Are there any examples in Brazil, Angola, Mozambique etc.? --Mcginnly | Natter 14:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Interesting point. The Grove mentions the work of Landi at Belém, Brazil as being (perhaps) influenced by the Pombaline style. It seems a good bet Brazilian neoclassicism owes some sort of debt to Lisbon. Twospoonfuls 17:21, 19 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Interesting article - but there aren't any sources. It looks like a private study rather than a wikipedia article. One point I am particularly interested in is whether the Pombal design is really all that seismically resistant. My feeling is that it is not. I will see if I can get anything on this. Muchado (talk) 05:18, 7 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

There is detailed info about the anti-seismic features of Manuel de Maia's designs in Nicholas Shrady's book about Lisbon Earthquake: The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, Nicholas Shrady, Penguin, 2008. [1] Mick gold (talk) 06:47, 10 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Palaces edit

"The construction of new palaces is regulated and unostentatious designs rejected (a very unpopular situation among the aristocracy), allowing for decoration only in the portal." Is this correct: unostentatious designs rejected? "allowing for decoration only in the portal" would imply that ostentatious designs were rejected. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 14:00, 17 January 2017 (UTC)Reply