Museu Calouste Gulbenkian - Lisboa, Portugal
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Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum) is a museum in Lisbon, Portugal, containing a collection of ancient, and some modern art.
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Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 12/12/2011
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Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum) is a museum in Lisbon, Portugal, containing a collection of ancient, and some modern art. The museum was founded according to Calouste Gulbenkian's last will, in order to accommodate and display Gulbenkian's art collection belonging now to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
The permanent exhibition galleries are distributed in chronological and geographical order to create two independent circuits within the overall tour.
The first circuit highlights Oriental art and Classical art on display in the Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Mesopotamian, Persian art from Islamic period, Armenian and Far Eastern art.
The second covers European art with sections dedicated to the art of the book, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts, particularly 18th century French art and the work of René Lalique. In this circuit, a wide-ranging number of pieces reflect various European artistic trends from the beginning of the 11th century to the mid-20th century.
The section begins with work in ivory and illuminated manuscript books, followed by a selection of 15th, 16th and 17th century sculptures and paintings.
Renaissance art produced in Holland, Flanders, France and Italy is on display in the next room. French 18th century decorative arts have a special place in the museum with outstanding gold and silver objects and furniture, as well as paintings and sculptures. These decorative arts are followed by galleries exhibiting a large group of paintings by the Venetian Francesco Guardi, 18th and 19th century English paintings, and finally a superb collection of jewels and glass by René Lalique, displayed in its own room.
The museum is one of the less known jewels in Europe. Gulbenkian's motto was "Only the best", and hence the museum has masterpieces by western European artists as Domenico Ghirlandaio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Rodin, Carpeaux, Houdon, Renoir, Dierick Bouts, Vittore Carpaccio, Cima da Conegliano, Van Dyck, Corot, Degas, Nattier, George Romney, Stefan Lochner, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Claude Monet, Jean-François Millet, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Frans Hals, Ruisdael, Boucher, Largillière, Andrea della Robbia, Pisanello, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Antonio Rosselino, André-Charles Boulle, Cressent, Oeben, Riesener, Antoine-Sébastien Durand, Charles Spire, Jean Deforges, François-Thomas Germain, and many others.
Some of the works in the collection were bought during the Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings.
Of the about 6000 items in the museum's collections a selection of around 1000 is in permanent exhibition.
The museum is located within a landscaped park, at the intersection of Av. de Berna and Av. António Augusto de Aguiar, in Lisbon.
(From Wikipedia)
From the Historic Marker
PT-"Inaugurado em 1969, o Museu Calouste Gulbenkian faz parte da Instituiçao legada a Portugal pelo multimilionário arménio, magnata do petróleo, que aqui fixou residência até ao fim da sua vida. O Museu exibe a colecção de arte de calouste Gulbenkian que vai desde estatuetas do Antigo Egipt, a vidros islâmicos e objectos de Arte Nova abrangendo um periodo de mais de quatro mil anos e que constitui um dis espólios mais importantes do país."
Eng-"Inaugurated i 1969, the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian is part of the institution left to Portugal as a legacy by the Armenian multimilionaire and oil tycoon, who lived here the final part of his life. The Museum exhibits Calouste Gulbenkian´s collection of art, wich spans from ancient Egyptioan statuettes, to Islamic glassware and Art Nouveau objectos, covering a period of more than four thousand years wich makes it one of the finest collections in the country"
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