Ecce Homo (Tempera auf Tafel) 

Tempera auf Holz, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal

RENÉ LALIQUE (1860 - 1945) ART NOUVEAU - The Kiss brooch, gold, emanel and ivory. Circa 1900 - 1902 FRANCE. Museum Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, PORTUGAL

Museu de Lisboa

Museum of Lisbon

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This is a very, very, very special place: the José Franco Museum-Village.

In the 1950s, a talented potter from the village of Sobreiro, José Franco (last two photos), decided, together with his wife, Helena, decided to create a scale-down version of a typical village from the rural areas of the Mafra County; this area in the northernmost part of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area is commonly known as the Zona Saloia - "Yokel Zone", in English. José Franco (1920-2009) feared that the memory of the rural world he once knew as a child could be lost, and being so, he created a mix of theme park and museum where the visitors can experience a romanticized version of the Yokel Zone as it was a century ago or so.

Everything in this place is magic, from the small stores and houses to the mock-ups of the rural villages of yesterday. It's impossible not to feel like a child again when you enter the school, the tinsmith's workshop, the winery, the windmill...

You don't even see me - Rui Chafes (Calouste Gulbekian Museum, Lisbon)

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (1857-1929) "Tragedy of Inês de Castro" (1901-1904) Realism Located in the Museu Militar de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Inês de Castro (1325-1355) was a Galician noblewoman and courtier, best known as lover and posthumously-recognized wife of King Peter I of Portugal. The dramatic circumstances of her relationship with Peter (at the time Prince of Portugal), which was forbidden by his father King Afonso IV, her murder on the orders of Afonso--she was decapitated in front of one of her young children—Peter's bloody revenge on her killers—he captured two of them and publicly executed them by ripping their hearts out, claiming they didn't have one after pulverizing his own heart—and the legend of the coronation of her exhumed corpse by Peter, have made Inês de Castro a frequent subject of art, music, and drama through the ages.

Inês and Peter also had several children, whom he would legitimize after her death. Afonso, died shortly after birth. John, Duke of Valencia de Campos, claimant to the throne during the 1383–85 Crisis. Denis, Lord of Cifuentes, claimant to the throne during the 1383–1385 Crisis. And Beatrice, who married Sancho Alfonso, 1st Count of Alburquerque, the great-grandmother of Ferdinand II of Aragon and thereby an ancestor of all Spanish monarchs.

Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, 2024

When you’re the last man standing of the disciples and you just so happen to be the bane of the emperor’s existence but he can’t just seem to kill you

National Coach Museum - Lisbon - Portugal

i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere / fell behind on my classmates and i ended up here

*another* taxidermy of wildly differing quality dump

Palácio Nacional e Convento de Mafra, PORTUGAL

Museu de Lisboa

Museum of Lisbon

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