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Renaissance window in Travessa D. Brites

A Renaissance-style window

This delicate window was part of a 16th-century noble house in the Ribeira area of Tavira.  A slender marble mullion divides the space, and around the wooden frames are columns with finely crafted capitals and corbels supported by tiny angels. In the centre of the composition is a shrouded male face, a motif found on countless portals in Algarvian churches. 
Freguesia: Tavira

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