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Showing posts with label Sculptures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sculptures. Show all posts

Monday, December 2, 2019

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy - Antuzede

The Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy, located in the parish of Antuzede, was erected in the highest part of the village, its interior has a rare sculptural ensemble, dating from the seventeenth century. This one shows us a Descent from the Cross, appearing the dead Christ, surrounded by the Virgin, his mother, and by Roman soldiers who help him down. The group has seen recent restoration work of its polychrome.

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Visit the Monument of the Rotunda do Sabor - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Monument of the Rotunda do Sabor, located in the Parish of Santa Maria, is on an arch above a water mirror, to remind you of a bridge, on which is placed the emblematic sculpture: three figures, representing inhabitants of the region, accompanied by three donkeys loaded with "sacks of coals and charcoal, sheaves of heather, products of the earth and other goods that the Rural World provided to supply the city."
The monument is the author of the sculptor Barata Feyo

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Visit the Berro do Adro - Parada (Bragança)

In the churchyard of Parade of Infantions one finds a figure carved in granite that seems to represent a bull. It has a flattened back, a length of 165 cm and a height, in the legs superior of 83 cm, and in the previous paws until the back of 77 cm. Not infrequently this sculpture has been associated with the image of a boar, which gives the designation, berrão of the churchyard, because it is known among the local population.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Visit the Shrine of Sameiro - Espinho (Braga)

The Shrine of Our Lady of Sameiro (or Shrine of the Sameiro or Immaculate Conception of Mount Sameiro) is a Marian shrine located in the parish of Espinho, Braga. The launching of the first stone occurred on June 14, 1863. It was Father Martinho da Silva who founded this shrine. This shrine is one of the centers of greatest Marian devotion in Portugal, just after the Shrine of Fatima and the Shrine of the Sovereign Mother. In this Temple, completed in the twentieth century, stands the interior of the high altar in polished white granite, as well as the silver tabernacle. In front of the Temple rises an imposing and vast staircase, on top of which stand two high pillars, surmounted with the image of the Virgin Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Nossa Senhora do Sameiro is represented by an image that is found on the main altar of the Sameiro Shrine in Portugal.
The sculpture, sculpted in Rome and blessed by Pope Pius IX, has a beautiful and valuable crown with 2.5 kg in solid gold and brilliant, offered in 1904 by the women of Portugal, including Queen D. Amelia of Orléans.
The liturgical celebration of Our Lady of Sameiro is celebrated on 12 June.
The annual pilgrimage of the Archdiocese of Braga takes place on the first Sunday of June, with departure from the Cathedral. On the third Sunday of August the statutory pilgrimage takes place, which begins in the neighboring Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte.

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Visit the Jorge Vieira Museum - Salvador (Beja)

The Jorge Vieira Museum, located in the Parish of Salvador (Beja), is part of the artistic heritage that the sculptor Jorge Vieira donated to the Beja Municipal Council in 1994. Installed since May 1995 in a building in the historic center of the city, The museum houses an important collection of sculptures, models and drawings by Jorge Vieira, a plastic artist who marked the course of Portuguese art throughout the 20th century.

Visit The Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner - Salvador (Beja)

The Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner whose model was projected in 1953 for the International Sculpture Competition promoted by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, where it was awarded. The mock-up took place at the Tate Gallery in London. It was also presented at the II São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (Portuguese representation). The project was implemented in larger dimensions in 1994 to be installed in the Parish of Salvador (Beja).
The original work of Jorge Vieira, in bronze, 445 x 300 x 290 mm, is in the Chiado Museum. The replica, also of Jorge Vieira, is made of steel and copper plate.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Visit the Church of St. Matthew - Misses

The Church of St. Matthew, located in the Town of Erra is of Romanesque style, has a tile panel type "Mudejar" of the sixteenth century and a font of holy water, instead of the column, has a stone figure of the century century, of almost total relief, with his arms crossed above his head, being that they hold the cup, also the stone of the sixteenth century.
People call this figure "Erra Old." The facade has a portal surmounted by a rectangular window for illumination of the choir. Above the window, a niche is a rough stone sculpture of a virgin in the sixteenth century.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Snows - Quarry

The Church of Our Lady of the Snows Parish located in the Quarry, was rebuilt between 1777 and 1782 through public subscription, as stated in the inscriptions on the inside. From a single nave, has a wooden ceiling of three plans, the chancel and two side altars.
In the body of the temple are two pictures of oil painting on board of the late sixteenth century, repainted in a pleasant way. Represent the beheading of a saint and martyr S. episode James and the Moors.
In the sanctuary, there is a chair of the eighteenth century, with the bottom and back of leather recorded. There is also an image of the Trinity, sixteenth-century stone sculpture.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Visit Arrábida Bridge - St. Peter's Afurada (Vila Nova de Gaia)

The Bridge of Arrabida is an arch bridge over the Douro River that connects the Parish of Saint Peter's Afurada (Vila Nova de Gaia) in Porto. This bridge, which opened in 1963, has four elevators in the towers of ornamental five feet tall, cast in bronze. Two of which side of Gaia, the sculptor Gustavo Bastos, representing "The Realm of Water Man"and "Men in his chance of Transposing Watercourses".
The board is composed of two-lane with 8 m each, separated by a whitish yellow raised via a 2 m wide, two lanes for cyclists of 1.70 m each, two rides raised footpaths 1.50 m wide.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Visit the Monument to the Athlete - Avintes

The Monument to the Athlete, located in the Town of Avintes, is the sculptor Manuel Pereira da Silva, and was opened in 1973 in celebration of the golden anniversary of the Football Club Avintes.

Visit the Monument to Padeira - Avintes

The Monument to Padeira Avintes, bronze sculpture based on a built in carved granite, was designed by the sculptor Henry Moreno. This is a piece in bronze, life size, which opened in 1974.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Visit the Church of San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The church of S. Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra) is a church foundation medieval changed in the sixteenth century and consists of a nave, with vault sixteenth and magnificent blue and white tiles, the 1 st half of the eighteenth century on the side walls, depicting scenes from the life of S . Peter.
In 1565 it was rebuilt and enlarged. In a simple and brief, we can describe this mother church as a temple of a nave with a vault Manueline. The middle of the nave we see a closing of vault with a crest that supports the wheel blades used by the Castros Santa Catarina. The facade and tower are baroque and tiled walls, white and blue. The tiles of the nave, are composed of a heraldic theme - the arms D. Thomas Adams and symbolic - the keys of St. Peter. The figurative panels, straight frame, represent the cycle of St. Peter as an apostle and companion of Jesus and his Apostles after the Ascension.
Inside the temple is still a Gothic sculpture of St. Peter Stone-Ançã, dating from the fifteenth century and originally from Romanesque chapel of St. Pedro Castle.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Visit the Moorish Power - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

The Moorish Fountain, located in the parish of São Martinho (Sintra), was originally on the edge of Round the shower and was subsequently dismantled and stored in 1960 and restored in 1982 in the middle of Round the shower. It is a great source of curious and revivalist style, within a neo-Moorish tradition. The author of the source was in 1922, the master sculptor Sintra José da Fonseca.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Visit the Monument to the Fireman - Fine

The Monument to the Fireman, located in the Town of Fine, is a sculptural work of artist Bottelho Portuguese, with elements in bronze and concrete and water. Dedicated to the Fire Department of Fine, the monument was inaugurated on November 24, 2002

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Visit the Church of Nossa Senhora da Guia - Avelar

The Church of Nossa Senhora da Guia, located in the Town of Avelar, consists of a nave and features stone sculptures representing the Holy Spirit, St. Sebastian and the Virgin of the Rosary. It has a tower on the left section is quadrangular bells.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Visit the Theatre Alves Coelho - Arganil

Coelho Alves Theater, located in the parish of Arganil, was inaugurated in 1954. It is to highlight the bas-reliefs on the facade of the building made by the sculptor Aureliano Lima and the paintings in the halls of the painter William Philip.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Visit the Statue tribute to the people of Praia de Mira (Fishermen)

The statue in tribute to the people of Praia de Mira (Pescadores) is a bronze sculpture by Andre Alves, representing a family of fishermen.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Visit the Lion Fountain - Alpedrinha

Not knowing for sure the date of its construction the Lion Fountain, located in the Town of Alpedrinha, must surely be one of the oldest sources of the Village. It is situated near the chapel of Santa Catarina.
The source has four steps to the top of them and a small landing. Until 1898 was a square tank that was at that time, replaced by a shell of stone. It has a relief sculpture, a creature with no legs and tail, a bit weathered. Maybe a lion. In the mouth has a brass faucet, which was once the iron.