Visita Guiada - Season 1
Season 1
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Episodes13
DatesMar 3, 2014 - May 26, 2014
Episodes
Season 1Episode 125 min
Sé de Braga
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 before the foundation of Portugal and one hundred years before the construction of the Sé de Braga, at the dawn of the reconquest. The chalice of São Geraldo is the oldest testimony in jewelery of how Arab culture is inscribed in the DNA of Iberian Christians.
Mar 3, 2014
Season 1Episode 225 min
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisboa
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 800 years (almost) unscathed. And it is a testament to the invention of the cross as the main Christian icon.
Mar 10, 2014
Season 1Episode 330 min
Museu Machado de Castro e Convento de Santa Clara-a-Nova, Coimbra
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 miracle of the roses was initially attributed to one of her aunts and only entered the roster of miracles of Queen Isabel of Portugal centuries after she had died.
Mar 17, 2014
Season 1Episode 430 min
Museu de Alberto Sampaio, Guimarães
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 victory of Aljubarrota, where the Portuguese defeated the Spanish in just half an hour and with a third of the men, or did it belong to D. João I of León and Castile who left it behind in the flight from the Battle?
Mar 24, 2014
Season 1Episode 525 min
Museu Grão Vasco, Viseu
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 began to be painted in 1501. Did Grão Vasco have access to the descriptions of the Indians of Brazil from the letter of Pêro Vaz de Caminha? A fantastic period that transformed European life and imagination.
Mar 31, 2014
Season 1Episode 630 min
Museu de Lamego
Apr 7, 2014
Season 1Episode 725 min
Convento de Cristo, Tomar
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 construction that buries the Middle Ages in Portugal once and for all and aligns it with the new European humanism.
Apr 14, 2014
Season 1Episode 825 min
Convento da Madre de Deus, Lisboa
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 carpets or jewelry are some of the unique aspects of Portuguese tilework.
Apr 21, 2014
Season 1Episode 925 min
Mosteiro de Tibães, Braga
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 Order of the Benedictines, committed to the vow of poverty, order this such luxurious piece? What ideas are behind the Baroque style?
Apr 28, 2014
Season 1Episode 1030 min
Universidade de Coimbra
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 stretched across four of the five Continents. In addition to the beauty of the space, the Joanina Library houses books that are universal treasures.
May 5, 2014
Season 1Episode 1125 min
Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea-Museu do Chiado, Lisboa
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 he captured the soul of those he portrayed and the spirit of the times that were being lived. A great Portuguese painter who deserves universal recognition.
May 12, 2014
Season 1Episode 1230 min
Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisboa
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 Ethnology. But, despite the invaluable value of this collection, some of its pieces are only 10 years old. What makes a drum, a mask or a pot lid valuable?
May 19, 2014
Season 1Episode 1330 min
Museu Soares dos Reis, Porto
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 the enigmatic Aurélia de Sousa? A painter from Porto who studied in Paris and surprisingly challenged the conventions of her time.
May 26, 2014
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