Painted ceilings of the Town Hall de Gois (*)-Renaissance ceilings unique in Portugal
February 23, 2011 by Castile
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The building that currently houses the Town Hall de Gois is one of the mansions built in the seventeenth century and is notable for its richly paneled ceiling painted in Renaissance style classified as a Public Interest.
The building also known as the Farm House was owned by the family Chichorro Barreto, one of the most important town in the seventeenth century, founding a chapel in the matrix where lie some of the important members of this family. In this same church is a remarkable Renaissance tomb of Luís da Silveira (*).
Simple structure, purified, the present town hall was divided into two floors, with a facade characterized by symmetry of the windows. The entire set has character and stands in the houses of the village of Gois.
We also mention the existence of two elegant columns, a Tuscan order and the other of the Ionic order, whose stems have great quality.
The remarkable painted ceilings of the county are unique Góis
If the exterior decoration of the building is guided by sobriety, inside we highlight the remarkable painted ceilings in brown author unknown, possibly made in the first half of the seventeenth century pictorial high-quality, formal and stylistic.
Six of the rooms of the house are paneled ceilings, the room of the office of president of the chamber with several scenes of the Old Testament (not visited), the hall with plant motifs (the hall) and other more interesting with Renaissance symbolism (birds, masks grotesque, monkey motifs, human figures ...). The ceilings are polychrome with beautiful colors (enhanced with the latest arrangement) in compositions guided by symmetry. The whole leads us to some tropicalismo. The rich wood-paneled ceiling, with the Renaissance and its symbolism dating from the first half, are a rare example of this type in Portugal Art. One other thing to read is to see with their own eyes this work of art are a good jolt to the tourist looking for Góis fluvial beaches . Unfortunately the ceilings are only visitable, according to availability of rooms and by appointment at the Tourist Office of Gois.
