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Rh Another art was promulgated in Portugal by the custom of decorating chapels and altars of the churches with gilded, carved wood (obra de talha dourada), which began to be introduced into the country the end of the fourteenth century. The extraordinary vogue it attained in the seventeenth century created a school of sculpture in wood which produced important artists as well as skilled gilders; to this the interiors of many churches throughout the kingdom bear witness.

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