Category Archives: Exhibition

General Decoration, Church of Saint Roch in Lisbon

The decoration of the Igreja de São Roque is the result of several phases of activity throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, reflecting the ideals of either the Society of Jesus or, as in the case of the chapels, the respective brotherhoods or confraternities. It was born of the Catholic…

General Decoration, Church of Saint Roch in Lisbon

Sacristy, Church of Saint Roch in Lisbon

The Sacristy of São Roque is important, both symbolically and artistically, for being one of the earliest sacristies constructed by the Sociaty of Jesus, conceived in line with the liturgical recommendations emanating from the Council of Trent. Church sacristies took on the added function os “art galleries” for the edification…

Sacristy, Church of Saint Roch in Lisbon

House of the Future on the Cloud – Living in a Smart City, Portuguese Communications Museum

House of the Future is, since 2003, one of the permanent exhibitions of Communications Museum, integrated in Espaço Futuro, dedicated to promoting knowledge of new technologies – equipment, application and advanced services – in a housing space. It is a registered trademark of the Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações, where the…

House of the Future on the Cloud – Living in a Smart City, Portuguese Communications Museum

Overcoming Distance, Portuguese Communications Museum

“Overcoming the Distance – Five Centuries of Communications in Portugal”, the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Communications, is a show about the evolution and improvement of techniques that allowed Humanity to communicate more and more quickly and efficiently. Organized chronologically in two routes, one on the history of the…

Overcoming Distance, Portuguese Communications Museum

The underwater cable in a sea of connectivity, Portuguese Communications Museum

The Portuguese Communications Foundation (FPC) and the National Communications Authority (ANACOM), opened the exhibition The submarine cable in a sea of connectivity, on the occasion of the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day celebrations. This exhibition, with the High Sponsorship of His Excellency the President of the Republic, highlights the…

The underwater cable in a sea of connectivity, Portuguese Communications Museum

Mala-Posta, Portuguese Communications Museum

Inaugurated in 2004 , when two hundred years passed after the end of the first period of operation of Mala-Posta (Lisbon to Coimbra, from 1798 to 1804), this exhibition recreates situations on a full scale associated with the transport of mail and people in one of the calls molting seasons,…

Mala-Posta, Portuguese Communications Museum

Farnese Gallery, Capodimonte National Museum

The Farnese collection gives its name to the gallery of the same name and all the works are sorted by area of origin in temporal sequence: the collection was started in the mid-sixteenth century by Pope Paul III, who collected it in his palace in Campo de ‘Fiori both ancient…

Farnese Gallery, Capodimonte National Museum

The French Halls, Capodimonte National Museum

Room 54 recalls the decade of French domination in Naples: paintings, furnishings with opaque and glossy gilding, busts and statues in both bronze and porcelain, as well as depicting the French sovereigns are of clear inspiration from beyond the Alps; the paintings include the Portrait of Gioacchino Murat and Napoleon…

The French Halls, Capodimonte National Museum

Royal Apartment, Capodimonte National Museum

The palace has a rectangular plan, with two buildings at the two ends slightly more protruding than the central one. It has a length of one hundred and seventy meters by eighty-seven on the shorter side and a height of thirty meters distributed on two floors plus an attic. The…

Royal Apartment, Capodimonte National Museum

Porcelain Gallery and De Ciccio Collection, Capodimonte National Museum

The treasures of the Porcelain Gallery in the Royal Apartments, where a selection of Neapolitan and European manufactured porcelain from the Bourbon collections is exhibited. The most famous piece of the section is the artifact in gilded and embossed silver, lapis lazuli, enamel and carved rock crystals. In rooms 35…

Porcelain Gallery and De Ciccio Collection, Capodimonte National Museum

Porcelain boudoir of Maria Amalia of Saxony, Capodimonte National Museum

The Porcelain boudoir of Maria Amalia of Saxony is a rococo interior now located in the Palace of Capodimonte in Naples. It was originally made for the Palace of Portici in 1757–59, but has now been moved to the Capodimonte Palace.It is named after Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of…

Porcelain boudoir of Maria Amalia of Saxony, Capodimonte National Museum

Farnese and Bourbon Armory, Capodimonte National Museum

In rooms 46, 47, 48, 49 and 50 the collections of the Farnesian and Bourbon Armory are exhibited: these are about four thousand pieces whose first set-up dates back to 1958 and of which they still retain their original appearance. Pieces of history and high craftsmanship, where many pieces with…

Farnese and Bourbon Armory, Capodimonte National Museum

The boundaries between art and fashion, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

The boundaries between art and fashion became less clear in the Eighties, when the forms of relationship between the two worlds grew on an International level. Art institutions opened their doors to designers, such as the Metropolitan A new category of exhibition curators and dedicated museums emerged. While art galleries…

The boundaries between art and fashion, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

Fashion is inspired by art, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

Art and fashion have faced each other, often looking at each other, even in the past. If the artists have been fascinated by clothing, as an essential tool to give realism to their representations, the tailor craftsmen have often drawn their inspirations from the world of art and assumed attitudes…

Fashion is inspired by art, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

The Ferragamo case, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

This first section of the exhibition is dedicated to Salvatore Ferragamo and his footwear, already judged in the 1930s as artifacts of artistic value, referring to a concept of art that focused attention on technical mastery as well as conceptual creativity. In his work, Ferragamo took the Renaissance artistic workshop…

The Ferragamo case, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

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