Name of Object:Grande Panorama de Lisboa / Panoramic View of Lisbon Location:Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Holding Museum:National Tile Museum About National Tile Museum, Lisbon Date of Object:c. 1700 Artist(s) / Craftsperson(s):Attributed to Gabriel del Barco (1649, Siguenza, Spain-1703 (?), Lisbon) Museum Inventory Number:1 Material(s) / Technique(s):Blue and white glazed earthenware Dimensions:H: 115 cm; w: 2247 cm Workshop / Movement:Lisbon Provenance:Palace of the Counts of Tentúgal, Lisbon Type of object:Tile panel (azulejos) Period of activity:1669, arrival in Portugal, 1703 Place of production:Lisbon Description:A tile panel (azulejos) painted blue on white that records Lisbon before the earthquake of 1755. A vast panoramic view of the capital and its outskirts, the panorama extends along the riverbanks from the Palace of the Counts of Miranda at the westernmost point to the Convent of St. Saint Francis in Xabregas, at the easternmost point. Lisbon is recorded on this tile panel measuring almost 23 metres wide, and produced before the earthquake of 1755. Depicting approximately 14 km of the riverbank, it shows a vast panoramic view of the capital and its outskirts between the Palace of the Counts of Miranda, the westernmost point, and the Convent of Saint Francis in Xabregas, the easternmost point. How date and origin were established:This panel is currently attributed by stylistic analysis to Gabriel del Barco, a Spanish tile painter and decorator who arrived to Portugal in 1669 and died probably around 1703. How Object was obtained:Purchased by the Marquis de Sousa Holstein (1838–1878) for the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and incorporated into the Fine Arts and Archaeology collection at Alvor Palace in Lisbon, today known as Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga. Displayed there from 1903 until 1960, it was transferred to the Museu do Azulejo at that time the ceramics department of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga. Selected bibliography:Vieira, A. Da Silva, "Panorama de Lisboa em azulejos existente no Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga", Dispersos, Vol. 2, Lisbon, 1960. Additional Copyright Information:Copyright images: Divisão de Documentação Fotográfica/ Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação, I.P. Citation of this web page:Ana Anjos Mântua, João Pedro Monteiro "Grande Panorama de Lisboa / Panoramic View of Lisbon" in "Discover Baroque Art", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://baroqueart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;BAR;pt;Mus12;41;en Prepared by: Ana Anjos Mântua, João Pedro Monteiro
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