Museu Nacional do Azulejo

The Museu Nacional do Azulejo housed inside the Convento Madre de Deus is a feast for your eyes that brims with Portuguese particularity. Some of the most beautiful tiles in all the world that made the country famous for its ”azulejos” are housed in this old convent in a truly magnificent way.

A museum like no other praising art in a very specific way in a 15th-century monastery that is an attraction by itself. The most notable of its elements is the exquisite Madre de Deus Church accessed from the inside of the museum is lavishly decorated with many gilded ornaments & large paintings that offer the final touch to this picturesque scenery.

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From the old convent remains a small Manueline (a Portuguese Gothic and Renaissance style) cloister and a stunning church, which makes the museum one of Lisbon’s most beautiful sights. The church’s tile panels are among the main highlights of the collection, and the gilded woodwork is one of the finest of several exceptional examples of the kind in the city. The paintings above the tile panels are by Cristóvão Lopes and André Gonçalves, important painters from the 16th and 18th centuries.

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The oldest pieces on display feature geometric patterns and came from Moorish-influenced southern Spain, while the most striking are the Chinese-inspired blue-and-white Dutch and Portuguese panels from the baroque period. They originally adorned palaces, convents, and private homes, while some of the more recent works were donated by artists. More