‏‏‎ St. Claire

From a golden period of Portuguese sculpture, these free-standing images of St. Francis and St. Claire, of great artistic quality, were a response to the religious fervour that gripped the nation during the Counter-Reformation and was so characteristic of the devotional iconography of the Baroque period. These pieces, whose carver is unknown, belonged to the Convent of Louriçal.

St. Claire

From a golden period of Portuguese sculpture, these free-standing images of St. Francis and St. Claire, of great artistic quality, were a response to the religious fervour that gripped the nation during the Counter-Reformation and was so characteristic of the devotional iconography of the Baroque period. These pieces, whose carver is unknown, belonged to the Convent of Louriçal.