0252 Andrea e Jacopo Sansovino per gli Avis: i mausolei regali portoghesi nel contesto europeo

Abstract

The article investigates the involvement of Andrea and Jacopo Sansovino in the planning of the burials of two Portuguese kings, D. João II and D. Manuel I. Starting from a new reading of the sources and the modern bibliography, it aims to reconstruct the chronology and events by relocating the sculptors’ activity and the ambitions of the Avis sovereigns to royal mausoleums beyond Portugal, from Spain, to France, to England. The article also re-examines drawing 142 A, which today is in the Uffizi’s Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, questioning its supposed relationship with those projects and with both artists’ production under the patronage of the Lusitanian kings.

Keywords

• royal tombs
• monastery of batalha
• jerónimos monastery in belém
• aviz dynasty
• king manuel i of portugal
• andrea sansovino
• jacopo sansovino