Treuer Unterstützer von König Pedro oder Peter I. von Portugal blickt von seiner jahrhundertealten Aufgabe auf, zusammen mit fünf anderen Löwen das Gewicht des schweren Marmorsarkophages des Monarchen zu tragen. Überqueren Sie die Kirche des ehemaligen Zisterzienserklosters Santa Maria in Alcobaco, Centro, Portugal, wo Pedro gegenüber dem Grab seiner ermordeten Geliebten, Inês de Castro (1325-1355) liegt.
4868 x 4867 px | 41,2 x 41,2 cm | 16,2 x 16,2 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
5. Juni 2013
Ort:
Alcobaça, Centro, Portugal.
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Alcobaça, Centro, Portugal: a faithful servant of the medieval Portuguese ruler Dom Pedro I raises his head and looks up from his centuries-long task of maintaining steadfast and immovable support for the monarch. The stone lion is one of six supporting the ornate sculpted Gothic sarcophagus containing the mortal remains of the king, also known as Peter I of Portugal, who reigned for ten years in the late-1300s. The sarcophagus, surmounted by the king’s recumbent effigy, stands in the south transept of the church of the Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça, founded in 1153. Opposite it in the north transept is the tomb of Pedro’s murdered mistress, Inês de Castro (born 1325). Their effigies face each other because Pedro wanted them to be able to see one another when they rose from their graves on Judgement Day. An 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. Pedro became king two years later. He exacted a gruesome revenge on her killers and ordered her remains to be transferred to the tomb he had commissioned for her at Alcobaça. According to popular (but probably false) legend, he had her exhumed corpse crowned as queen and ordered courtiers to swear allegiance to her and to 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.B5441
