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Portugal was drawn into Spain's wars, which resulted in the Dutch targeting Portugal's overseas empire and conquering north-eastern Brazil in the 1630s. Portugal's economy, heavily dependent on colonial trade, weakened significantly, while the Dutch and English, who were overtaking Portugal's maritime empire, contributed to a sense of national ...
Atrium of the MNAA annex hall. Portuguese Renaissance paintings.. The government formally purchased the Janelas Verdes palace in June, 1884, and recast it as the Museu Nacional de Belas-Artes e Arqueologia ("National Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology"), formally founded on 11 May 1884, to house what where then known as the "Museus Centrais" of the State and placed it under the management of ...
The Portuguese Renaissance refers to the cultural and artistic movement in Portugal during the 15th and 16th centuries. Though the movement coincided with the Spanish and Italian Renaissances, the Portuguese Renaissance was largely separate from other European Renaissances and instead was extremely important in opening Europe to the unknown and bringing a more worldly view to those European ...
The oldest known art in Brazil is the cave paintings in Serra da Capivara National Park in the state of Piauí, [1] dating back to c. 13,000 BC. More recent examples have been found in Minas Gerais and Goiás, showing geometric patterns and animal forms. [2]
The Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (MNBA; Portuguese for National Museum of Fine Arts) is a national art museum located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The museum, officially established in 1937 by the initiative of education minister Gustavo Capanema [ pt ] , was inaugurated in 1938 by President Getúlio Vargas .
Nicolau Chanterene (1485-1555), French sculptor and architect who worked mainly in Portugal and Spain; Eduardo Teixeira Coelho (1919-2005), comic book artist; Evelina Coelho (1945–2013), painter; José Dias Coelho (1923-1961) Jorge Colaço (1868-1942) João Cutileiro (1937-2021), sculptor especially of women's torsos in marble
The National Justice Museum (formerly known as the Galleries of Justice Museum and, historically, the Shire Hall and County Gaol) is an independent museum on High Pavement in the Lace Market area of Nottingham, England. The museum is housed in a former Victorian courtroom, prison, and police station and is therefore a historic site where an ...
The National Museum was officially established by King João VI of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves (1769–1826) in 1818 with the name Royal Museum, in an initiative to stimulate scientific research in the Kingdom of Brazil, then a constituent part of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves.