A thousand years is the age of São Geraldo's chalice. A silver piece ordered by D. Afonso Henriques' great-great-great-grandfather to drink with meals. Belonging to the Museu da Sé de Braga, the São Geraldo chalice was made 150 years…
The Cross of D. Sancho I proves how the first kings of Portugal, contrary to what was conveyed for centuries, were sophisticated and elegant men. Despite the incredible vicissitudes it went through, the Cross of D. Sancho I went through…
The treasure of Queen Saint Isabel and her tomb are precious works of European medieval art. And they tell us other stories about the famous wife of D.Dinis. A charitable queen, yes, but also very connected to power and politics. The…
The nativity triptych is a rarity of European medieval art. A portable altar, in silver and gilded silver, with 1.30m in height by 1.50m in width. The nativity triptych is shrouded in mystery: was it ordered by D. João I of Portugal after…
The first Indian in the history of Western art is Portuguese. Grão Vasco and his collaborators painted him on the panels of the altarpiece of the Sé de Viseu. A surprising fact: the Portuguese arrived in Brazil in 1500 and these panels…
The main cloister of the Convent of Christ is referenced in the history of universal art as one of the most beautiful examples of European Renaissance architecture. But this cloister is more than a treasure of Renaissance art, it is the…
The collection of the National Tile Museum proves how Portuguese tilework is a unique case in the world of tile art. Panels built in intrinsic dialogue with the architecture that supports them or panels that reproduce the patterns of…
The High Altar of the Church of the Monastery of Tibães is one of the most spectacular known examples of rococo carving. From the 18th century, the Golden Age, literally and metaphorically, the Tibães retable raises a question: why did…
The Joanina Library is classified as the most sumptuous University Library in the World. Magnificent, the Library ordered by D. João V for the University of Coimbra had to live up to one of the richest Kings in Europe and an Empire that…
The portrait of the poet Antero de Quental painted by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro seems to predict Antero’s suicide which would take place two years later. Columbano never painted what he saw but what he felt and that’s why it’s said that…
The African collection of the National Museum of Ethnology is one of the best in the world. So much so that the Museum of African Art in New York has held a major exhibition exclusively with the African pieces from the National Museum of…
The self-portrait of Aurélia de Sousa was selected in the year 2000 by the Royal Academy of Arts in London to represent the art that was being created in 1900 all around the world. And yet, who in Portugal is familiar with the painting of…
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More than 1500 clay figures, modeled by hand according to the historical descriptions of what was the Procession of the Body of God in Lisbon of D. João V, in the century. XVIII. The set was presented to the public for the first time in…
Giovanni Boccaccio, the Italian writer of the century. XIV, produced his masterpiece, Decameron, in the aftermath of the Black Death that devastated a third of the European population. The black environment of those times of plague, so…
The riverside area of Belém, in Lisbon, has, over the centuries, been able to successfully host plant species of origins as diverse as Northern Europe, South America or Japan. In the Tropical Botanical Garden, for example, the pines of…
A library with ten thousand volumes is an expressive library anywhere in the world. If we consider that a xiloteca is characterized by gathering and classifying samples of different woods, we must recognize that the collection of ten…
During the century. In the 16th century, fresco painting artists worked intensively on the Trasmontana streak, on both sides of the border, enriching churches, chapels and chapels. There are dozens of cases that have been identified,…
The result of a local civic initiative, this museum from the 1930s. XX brings together the largest collection of paintings by José Malhoa. But not only. The first generation of Portuguese naturalists, as well as their successors are well…
Founded in 1639 to house a congregation of Irish Dominican nuns, the Convent of Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso also became a school almost 200 years ago, but it only stopped being a convent house in 2016, when the last Irish nuns took to…
Since the 1980s. XX that this territory has been the subject of successive archaeological works by specialists in prehistory. Among many other surprising discoveries, there are traces, with 7,500 years old, of primitive peasant…
Until the penultimate decade of the century. XIX, the highest mountain range in mainland Portugal was still an unexplored territory. If we do not count with the few shepherds who dared in their rugged peaks and with a pair of foreign…
Winner of the liberal cause in Portugal and first emperor of Brazil, D. Pedro, the heir to King D. João VI, was one of the most controversial figures in the History of Portugal. And he was the only one who established with the inhabitants…
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Constitutionalism was endorsed in Portugal by D. João VI, in 1822, almost a hundred years before the implantation of the Republic. Along the way, the country experienced very tumultuous times, which culminated in the Civil War…
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