👤 Unknown author, 18th century
🏛️ Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro ・ Coimbra, Portugal
This is a very rare piece, both in its relatively naturalistic serpentine form, and in its being earthenware. It is from Coimbra, but difficult to date precisely. The arrangement of the snake scales is reminiscent of the bead motif typically us(...) #portugal#museum#art
👤 João José Vaz, 1790/1850
🏛️ National Museum Soares dos Reis ・ Porto, Portugal
José João Vaz belongs to the first generation of Portuguese naturalist painters and now famous Grupo do Leão. He was one of the key exponents of the naturalist movement and an avid painter of marinas. #portugal#museum#art
👤 Maria Keil, 1955
🏛️ 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
Created in 1892 the painting shows a conventional but detailed rendering. The arid landscape gives it a baron composition which is reinforced by the uniformity of the colors used. #portugal#museum#art
👤 1648
🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal
This pattern consists of 4x4 azulejo modules and is somewhat paradoxical: whilst at the outset it fit into the category of the simpler solutions devised in the Lisbon workshops, those in which the 4x4 module was made up of only two different el(...) #portugal#museum#azulejo
