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Just beyond the dense quarters of the Alfama is São Vicente de Fora (St. Vincent Beyond the Walls), an Italianate church and monastic cloister.
While Corot was drawn to the contemplative and even the monastic life (he painted a peculiar series devoted to monks reading, playing the cello, and praying), he was by no means immune to feminine charm.
It also has a museum, which conveys a flavor of monastic life, along with icons and manuscripts.
Suggesting, as it did, the remote look of both the unworldly priesthood and the potent monastic orders, black garb was often the anti-fashion choice of dandies and intellectuals, of Hamlet the anxious prince, Byron the smoldering poet, and Baudelaire the austere, afflicted critic.
The monastic movement, founded by St. Benedict of Umbria in the sixth century, reasserted involvement in the realities of social life.