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Palacete neomanuelino en Foz do Douro (Porto, Portugal): ¿un testimonio de revivalismo “nacional”? (siglos XIX-XX)

located on Avenida do Brasil, in Foz do Douro (Porto, Portugal), the Neomanuelino Palace was built between 1910 and 1911 by the Jorge Guimarães family, with authorship attributed to José Teixeira Lopes. It is one of the few examples of village architecture from the end of the 19th and beginning of t...

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Published in:Historia y sociedad (Medellín, Colombia) Colombia), 2023 (45), p.128-150
Main Author: Gadelho Novais Tavares, João
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Language:Spanish
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Summary:located on Avenida do Brasil, in Foz do Douro (Porto, Portugal), the Neomanuelino Palace was built between 1910 and 1911 by the Jorge Guimarães family, with authorship attributed to José Teixeira Lopes. It is one of the few examples of village architecture from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries that persisted in the urban changes of the second half of the century. With the aim of studying this example of Portuguese revivalist architecture, this article analyzes a series of plans and work permits, cartography, photographic records and various bibliographic sources referring to the owner, the architect and the architectural work, having as a starting point the inquiry into the choice of location and the architectural language used, as well as the relationship of the building with the national style and the casa portuguesa. These last themes occupied the Portuguese intellectual panorama in the decades after the construction of the palace, highlighting the discussion about the existence of the neo-Manueline style or whether it is the result of an eclecticism. It should also be noted that the palace has elements that are part of a reasoning about Portuguese housing architecture and the existence of a national style, with a strong identity, premises that will be the basis of the theorization of the casa portuguesa (Portuguese house). O presente trabalho académico visa o estudo do Palacete Neomanuelino, situado na Avenida do Brasil, na zona da Foz, no Porto. O palacete, construído entre 1910 e 1911 por Beatriz Jorge Guimarães e pelo capitão Artur Jorge Guimarães, com autoria atribuída ao arquiteto José Teixeira Lopes, é um dos poucos exemplares da arquitetura de vilegiatura no final do século XIX e início do século XX que persistiu às alterações urbanísticas da segunda metade do século, que levaram à demolição de diversas habitações ao longo de toda a costa da Barra do Douro. O edifício em análise assume um caráter particular da cultura tardo-novecentista ao utilizar uma linguagem revivalista no seu programa plástico. Este revivalismo apresenta-se como neomanuelino, levando a que o palacete entre no debate acérrimo acerca da existência deste estilo ou se este é resultante de um ecletismo, com diversas culturas artísticas, nomeadamente o gótico, o mudéjar e o renascentista. Aqui observamos igualmente elementos integrantes de um raciocínio sobre a arquitetura habitacional portuguesa e a existência de um estilo nacional, de forte pendor identit
ISSN:0121-8417