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Sintra National Palace, Portugal

The Sintra National Palace, also known as Vila Palace, is located in the parish of São Martinho, in the village of Sintra, Lisbon District, in Portugal. It was one of the Royal Palaces and today is owned by the Portuguese State, which uses it for tourist and cultural purposes. Urban…

Sintra National Palace, Portugal

Lower rooms, Sintra National Palace

There is one on the ground floor arcade with four broken arches , surmounted by five windows maineladas and emoludramento limestone. The inner compartments are reflected in cores arranged around courtyards. These include the Archer’s Room , the Moura (or Arab’s) Room , the Pegas Room , the Swan Room.…

Lower rooms, Sintra National Palace

Upper rooms, Sintra National Palace

The main elevation is organized in three bodies, the central of the palace being higher and retreated in relation to the extremes. The other fronts of the building have a complex articulation of protruding and reentrant bodies, highlighting the cubic volume of the Room of Arms. Characteristic feature of this…

Upper rooms, Sintra National Palace

National Palace of Queluz, Portugal

The Palace of Queluz is a Portuguese 18th-century palace located at Queluz, a city of the Sintra Municipality, in the Lisbon District, on the Portuguese Riviera. One of the last great Rococo buildings to be designed in Europe, the palace was conceived as a summer retreat for Dom Pedro of…

National Palace of Queluz, Portugal

Royal Gardens, National Palace of Queluz

Queluz is famed for the glory of its gardens, which include a large topiary parterre laid out in the manner of Le Nôtre at the rear of the palace The Flemish influences, including the canals, in the garden are the work of the Dutch gardener Gerald van der Kolk, who…

Royal Gardens, National Palace of Queluz

Robillion Pavilion, National Palace of Queluz

West wing, adjacent to the Ambassador’s Room, added to the initial plan of the Palace by Jean-Baptiste Robillion, who replaces Mateus Vicente de Oliveira after he was requested by the Marquis of Pombal for the reconstruction of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake. The Pavilion, currently known by the name of…

Robillion Pavilion, National Palace of Queluz

Private apartments, National Palace of Queluz

The private rooms of the palace are far smaller and more intimate than the formal state rooms and contain many royal mementos and curios which belonged to the rooms’ former occupants. Amongst the more remarkable rooms in this suite are the Sala das Merendas, the Queen’s Boudoir and the King’s…

Private apartments, National Palace of Queluz

The state apartments, National Palace of Queluz

The interior of the palace received no less attention to detail and design than the exterior. French artisans were employed to decorate the rooms, many of which are small, their walls and ceilings painted to depict allegorical and historical scenes. Polished red bricks were frequently used for the floors, for…

The state apartments, National Palace of Queluz

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

The National Museum of Contemporary Art of Portugal (MNAC) is an art museum located in the Chiado neighbourhood of Lisbon, Portugal. It was created in 1911 and re-inaugurated, in new installations, in 1994. The museum covers the period between 1850 and 1950, with works by the foremost Portuguese artists of…

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

Portuguese art, Reasons and Emotions, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal

The collection of the exhibition “Portuguese art, Reasons and Emotions”, covers much of its temporal arc, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s occupying all the galleries of the Museum, from the Serpa Pinto Wing. It begins with portraiture, an eighteenth-century theme rarely addressed in generational dialogues by artist collectives…

Portuguese art, Reasons and Emotions, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal

The Power of the Image, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal

The close relationship between Veloso Salgado and the painters Adrien Demont and Virginie Demont-Breton represents an exceptional case of artistic collaboration and friendship. Veloso Salgado spent some time at the Demont residence in Wissant, near Calais in the North of France, a town where the couple had settled and which…

The Power of the Image, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal

National Music Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

The National Museum of Music is the national museum of Portugal dedicated to music, has one of the most important collections of instruments in Europe. Some of these instruments are classified as National Treasures. as is the case of Stradivarius Chevillard Cello – King of Portugal, Carnation Antunes, or Pascal…

National Music Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

‏National Museum of the Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal

The National Museum of the Azulejo, occasionally known as the National Tile Museum, is an art museum in Lisbon, Portugal dedicated to the azulejo, traditional tilework of Portugal and the former Portuguese Empire, as well as of other Iberophone cultures. Housed in the former Madre de Deus Convent, the museum’s…

‏National Museum of the Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal

‏‏‎Church of the Mother of God, National Tile Museum of Portugal

When visitors enter the Church of the Madre Deus Convent, they are amazed by the lavish decoration, which makes the convent a fine example of Portuguese Baroque in all its splendour. All available space seems to be decorated by azulejo, gilded carving or paintings. Although the church was built by…

‏‏‎Church of the Mother of God, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Chapter House of the Mother of God Convent, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Everything points to the fact that this choir originally occupied a part of the primitive church, probably the main chapel which was transformed into the Chapter House in the works campaign of D. João III (r. 1521-1557). The Low Choir eventually acquired a funerary function, for it was here that…

Chapter House of the Mother of God Convent, National Tile Museum of Portugal

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