Cloister D. Afonso V, built in the reign D. Afonso V (1448-1482) by the master Fernão de Évora. This is the first two-storey cloister in Portugal. The upper floor has a wooden roof, and its style is much more regular and austere than the Royal Cloister.

15th century art is guided by a vision focused only on what is Portuguese, in a strict sense, insofar as it views art as the materialization of the «collective spirit of the nation». This reductive nationalist approach ignores the role that the importation of works of art and the circulation of foreign artists played in defining artistic culture and material culture in the 15th century.