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  1. ・ Alicatado tiles with a geometrical composition ・

    👤 Unknown, 16th century -
    🏛️ National Palace of Sintra ・ Sintra, Portugal

    In the rich decoration of the so-called Sala Árabe (Arab Room), from the time of King Manuel I, the most outstanding feature is the panels of geometrical tiles that create a three-dimensional optical illusion, topped by friezes of relief tiles (...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  2. ・ Grand panorama of Lisbon - downtown, castle and eastern zone ・

    👤 Gabriel Del Barco (attrib.), 1700
    🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal

    This extraordinary work, one of the most important in the collection of the National Azulejo Museum, is a unique iconographic document for the history of Lisbon, for it shows the most complete view of Lisbon from the River Tagus before the eart(...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  3. ・ Alicatado tiled floor ・

    👤 Unknown, 15th century -
    🏛️ National Palace of Sintra ・ Sintra, Portugal

    The Palatine Chapel at the National Palace of Sintra, used for Christian worship, is heavily marked by Mudejar influences in the decoration of its carved wooden ceiling, and also in its alicatado tiled floor.Until the second half of the 15th ce(...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  4. ・ Lisbon's subway - Sete Rios station ・

    👤 Julio Resende / Fábrica de Cerâmica Viúva Lamego, 1995
    🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal

    1995 replica of a lining section of the Sete Rios station of Lisbon’s subway. Júlio Resende was invited to design the decoration of this station. The proximity of the Zoo dictated the decorative theme of an exotic fauna and flora portrayed in w(...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  5. ・ Panel ・

    👤 Jorge Martins / Ratton Cerâmicas, 1988/1993
    🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal

    In 1987, Ratton Cerâmicas was founded in Lisbon. This gallery, whose aim to simulate and publicize the creation of contemporaneous tiles by Portuguese and foreigner artists, has encouraged them to show interest in the specific types and techniq(...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  6. ・ Spanish-Moorish tiles panel ・

    👤 Fernan Martinez Quijarro, 1503 A.D.
    🏛️ Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro ・ Coimbra, Portugal

    These "corda seca" tiles have a similar pattern to the mudejar ceilings and were imported from Seville in 1503 to decorate the Cathedral.
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  7. ・ City ・

    👤 Manual Cargaleiro / Fábrica de Cerâmica Viuva Lamego, 1988 (panel signed and dated)
    🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal

    Abstract composition representing the city of Lisbon.
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  8. ・ Alicatado tiles with a geometrical composition ・

    👤 Unknown, 16th century -
    🏛️ National Palace of Sintra ・ Sintra, Portugal

    In the rich decoration of the so-called Sala Árabe (Arab Room), from the time of King Manuel I, the most outstanding feature is the panels of geometrical tiles that create a three-dimensional optical illusion, topped by friezes of relief tiles (...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

    artsandculture.google.com/asse

  9. ・ City ・

    👤 Manual Cargaleiro / Fábrica de Cerâmica Viuva Lamego, 1988 (panel signed and dated)
    🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal

    Abstract composition representing the city of Lisbon.
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  10. ・ Spanish-Moorish tiles panel ・

    👤 Fernan Martinez Quijarro, 1503 A.D.
    🏛️ Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro ・ Coimbra, Portugal

    These "corda seca" tiles have a similar pattern to the mudejar ceilings and were imported from Seville in 1503 to decorate the Cathedral.
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  11. ・ Composition with islamic motif azulejos (door) ・

    👤 1500/1550
    🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal

    The montage of this composition evokes the azulejo decorations still extant today in Coimbra’s Old Cathedral, the Sé Velha. This Romanesque temple in yellow limestone, dating to the start of the 12th century, consists of three naves, a salient (...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  12. ・ Pattern azulejos, Fabrica Roseira ・

    👤 Fabrica Roseira, 1833/1880
    🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal

    From the mid-19th century onwards the taste for covering the façades of buildings in azulejos lent colour and rhythm to the austere urban landscape of Portugal. Fábrica Roseira in Lisbon produced a large part of these stamped faience azulejos.
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  13. ・ Corda-seca tiles with a “cock’s foot” motif ・

    👤 Unknown, 15th-16th century -
    🏛️ National Palace of Sintra ・ Sintra, Portugal

    Wall covering of the Central Courtyard at the National Palace of Sintra, from where there is an impressive view over the monumental chimneys of the mediaeval kitchen. The corda-seca technique consisted of isolating the areas to be painted by cu(...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  14. ・ Lisbon's subway - Rossio station ・

    👤 Maria Keil, 1963
    🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal

    Maria Keil (b. 1914 – d. 2012) developed a vast oeuvre in painting, illustration, engraving, tapestry and azulejos. As far these last are concerned she made a name by being the first Portuguese artist to give azulejos a modern look, based on th(...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  15. ・ Corda-seca tiles with geometrical knotwork motifs ・

    👤 Unknown, 15th-16th century -
    🏛️ National Palace of Sintra ・ Sintra, Portugal

    Wall covering of the Sala das Pegas (Magpie Room) at the National Palace of Sintra, with a Mudejar pattern of a star-shaped motif with a powerful chromatic effect. This room was used to receive the realm’s most notable figures and foreign ambas(...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  16. ・ Azulejo panel with Islamic motifs ・

    👤 1503
    🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal

    Between the late 15th century and the first half of the 16th, the use of azulejos as a wall revetment spread in Portugal. These first azulejos, called Hispano-Moresque, were mainly imported from Seville and showed a strong Moorish influence. Th(...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  17. ・ Pattern panel with butterflies ・

    👤 Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, 1905
    🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal

    In the last quarter of the 19th century Caldas da Rainha became, on a level with Lisbon, Porto, Gaia and Aveiro, an important centre of ceramic production. It was revitalised in 1883 when the caricaturist and illustrator Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro(...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  18. ・ ‏‏‎

    Wall tile for teaching purposes ・

    👤 Unknown author, 18th century
    🏛️ Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro ・ Coimbra, Portugal

    These "azulejos", or wall tiles, were made, probably in Coimbra, to satisfy the instructions issued by the Superior-General of the Society of Jesus in 1692, aimed at the improvement of the quality of mathematics teaching in Portugal. However, r(...)
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

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  19. ・ Spanish-Moorish tiles panel ・

    👤 Fernan Martinez Quijarro, 1503 A.D.
    🏛️ Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro ・ Coimbra, Portugal

    These "corda seca" tiles have a similar pattern to the mudejar ceilings and were imported from Seville in 1503 to decorate the Cathedral.
    #portugal #museum #azulejo

    artsandculture.google.com/asse

  20. Recordatorio de que tenéis disponibles varios diseños en la tienda de #Rojerismo estampaos en #camiseta y #totebag de algodón orgánico, #taza, #print, #chapa, #imán, #lámina y #azulejo (azulejos chulísimos, he de decir) en:
    rojerismo.com/beatroz/

    ¡Muchas gracias por los impulsos, muchachada!

  21. January, A sea of tiles. Inspired by hand-painted Portuguese tiles I tried to convey its non-perfect and yet humanistic details while highlighting, here and there, individual tile pieces that come together as little geometric fishes.
    ^ Portucalio.com/

    The video was done with #synfigStudio

    #january #calendar2019 #calendar #portucalio #sea #ocean #azulejos #tiles #azulejoportugues #blue #tile #azulejo

    Music preview: Sara Tavares, One Love