The 'Royal Journey of Succession to Portugal' of King D. Filipe I of Portugal and the architectonic renovation of the palatine residences: the case of the Royal Palace of Lisbon (Paço da Ribeira)
Abstract
During the Royal Journey of Succession to Portugal, which started in Madrid in March 1580 and ended in Lisbon in February 1583, the Spanish King Felipe II became D. Filipe I of Portugal. But this political expedition, which resulted in the legitimation of the new king before the old kingdom, would have serious repercussions in the field of palatine architecture, with the renovation of an important set of royal palaces belonging to the Portuguese Crown, integrated since then in the Iberian Dual Monarchy.
The detailed analysis of the coeval documentary sources, with an emphasis on the epistolary correspondence produced within the sphere of Prudent-King circle, directly or indirectly, permits to comprehend the initial procedures implemented in the architectural renovation and spatial expansion of the main Portuguese royal palace in Lisbon: the Paço da Ribeira. The political and symbolic dimensions given to the palace building, made in a power scale and strength image of the King himself, must be analysed in the context of the materialization of a ruler who would inevitably leave the kingdom but not its people.
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