Azulejo (Portuguese: [ɐzuˈle(j)ʒu, ɐzuˈlɐjʒu], Spanish: [aθuˈlexo]; from the Arabic الزليج, al-zillīj) is a form of Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed...
51 KB (4,997 words) - 16:42, 15 August 2024
The Museu Nacional do Azulejo (Portuguese for National Museum of the Azulejo), occasionally known in English as the National Tile Museum, is an art museum...
6 KB (489 words) - 21:43, 22 May 2024
The Casa de Azulejo (English: "House of Azulejos") is a 19th-century historic home in the Saúde neighborhood in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It was built in...
8 KB (724 words) - 19:25, 16 August 2024
The Casa de los Azulejos ("House of Tiles") or Palacio de los Condes del Valle de Orizaba (Palace of the Counts of Valley of Orizaba) is an 18th-century...
17 KB (1,956 words) - 02:37, 11 July 2024
Chapel of Santa Catarina (category Buildings and structures with azulejos in Portugal)
the city of Porto, in Portugal. It is particularly noted for the blue azulejo tiles on its exterior walls. The chapel had its origins in an old wooden...
4 KB (408 words) - 22:15, 21 July 2024
Casa de Pilatos (category Buildings and structures with azulejos in Andalusia)
different azulejo (Spanish glazed tile) designs made in the 1530s by the brothers Diego and Juan Pulido, one of the largest early-modern azulejo collections...
8 KB (945 words) - 04:04, 14 April 2024
São Bento railway station (category Buildings and structures with azulejos in Portugal)
architect José Marques da Silva. The large panels of around twenty thousand azulejo tiles (551 square meters) were designed and painted by Jorge Colaço. The...
17 KB (1,684 words) - 04:04, 14 April 2024
1715, but no reference to a period of construction or completion. The azulejo tile was applied to the church in 1730 by Policarpo de Oliveira Bernardes...
11 KB (1,245 words) - 15:29, 3 May 2023
of this parish that hides treasures such as the National Museum of the Azulejo or the Palacio do Grilo. Belém is famous as the place from which many of...
154 KB (13,562 words) - 10:34, 17 August 2024
Maria Keil (section Azulejos/Lisbon Metro)
and diversified work that included painting, drawing and illustration, azulejo tiles, graphic and furniture design, tapestry and scenography. Particularly...
17 KB (1,908 words) - 09:12, 19 January 2024