Palácio Azurara : museu de artes decorativas portuguesas : azulejos e restauros

Abstract

We must present, the results obtained so far, in the research work, directed to the Project with the register of thesis named, Azurara Palace-Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts: Tiles and Restorations. In terms of historical contextualization and with a view to updating the cataloguing and inventory azulejar, which focuses on datable tiles from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century, namely the panels of figurative typology depicting scenes of the New Testament related to the "Birth of Christ" and "Visitation", applied in the atrium of the palace at the time of purchase of the building, celebrated in 1947, and the panels of the seventeenth century, the result of an order from the House of Unhão, to the Palace to the post of the Career in Santarem, in the 3rd quarter of the seventeenth century, and in the nineteenth century will have been transferred to Quinta dos Chavões, belonging to the same family, and placed on a murete, of the noble floor, and in 1958 comes to the Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva Foundation and were applied in the Drawing Room, today called the Hall of Platitudes. We consider it essential to study the process of works, restorations and adaptations in the building, once required by owners, namely: Bernardo Luís da Câmara Sotomaior, who lived in the palace at the time of the earthquake of 1755; João Salter de Mendonça (1st Viscount of Azurara) as owner from 1789 to 1819, and his son, as the same name (2nd Viscount of Azurara) in a later period; Pedro da Cunha who lived in the palace in the middle of the third quarter of the nineteenth century. The inventory and cataloguing of the azulejar collection will be recorded on the Az-Infinitum platform, in the future and finally, it is intended to carry out the Catalog of the Azulejar Collection, of the Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts. It is intended to start the registration and analysis of chemical and morphological during interventions such as the continuation of studies to this to the needs of conservation and restoration interventions, and this project included the intervention of the panel of "Visitation" and "Nativity"