Probably the best of such attempts to copy the art of Portugal's greatest age is found at Bussaco, where the hotel, with its arcaded galleries and its great sphere-bearing spire, is not unworthy of the sixteenth century, and where the carving, usually the spontaneous work of uninstructed men, shows that some of the mediaeval skill, as well as some of the mediaeval methods, have survived till the present century.

BOOKS CONSULTED

Hieronymi Osorii Lusitani, Silvensis in Algarviis Episcopi: _De rebus Emmanuelis, etc._ Cologne, 1597.

Padre Ignacio da Piedade e Vasconcellos: _Historia de Santarem Edificada_. Lisboa Occidental, 1790.

J. Murphy: _History and Description of the Royal Convent of Batalha_. London, 1792.

Raczynski: _Les Arts en Portugal_. Paris, 1846.

Raczynski: _Diccionaire Historico-Artistique du Portugal_. Paris, 1847.

J. C. Robinson: 'Portuguese School of Painting' in the _Fine Arts Quarterly Review_. 1866.

Simes, A. F.: _Architectura Religiosa em Coimbra na Idade Meia_.

Ignacio de Vilhena Barbosa: _Monumentos de Portugal Historicos, etc._ Lisboa, 1886.

Oliveira Martims: _Historia de Portugal_.

Pinho Leal: _Diccionario Geographico de Portugal_.

Albrecht Haupt: _Die Baukunst der Renaissance in Portugal_.

Frankfurt A.M., 1890.

Visconde de Condeixa: _O Mosteiro da Batalha em Portugal_. Lisboa & Paris.

Justi: 'Die Portugiesische Malerei des 16ten Jahrhunderts' in the _Jahrbuch der K. Preuss. Kunstsammlung_, vol. ix. Berlin, 1888.

Joaquim Rasteiro: _Quinta e Palacio de Bacalhoa em Azeito_.

Lisboa, 1895.

Joaquim de Vasconcellos: 'Batalha' & 'So Marcos' from _A Arte e a Natureza em Portugal._ Ed. E. Biel e Cie. Porto.

L. R. D.: _Roteiro Ill.u.s.trado do Viajante em Coimbra_. Coimbra, 1894.

Caetano da Camara Manoel: _Atravez a Cidade de Evora, etc._ Evora, 1900.

Conde de Sabugosa: _O Paco de Cintra_. Lisboa, 1903.

Augusto Fuschini: _A Architectura Religiosa da Edade Media_.

Lisboa, 1904.

Jose Queiroz: _Ceramica Portugueza_. Lisboa, 1907.