Autor(es): Mimoso, João Manuel ; Pais, Alexandre ; Filipe, Victor ; Esteves, Maria de Lurdes ; Pereira, Sílvia ; Matos, Maria Antónia Pinto de ; Cardoso, Ana Margarida ; Candeias, António
Data: 2019
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/43120
Origem: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
Assunto(s): Renaissance majolica; Azulejo panel Nossa Senhora da Vida; Góis, João de; Early portuguese azulejos; Museu Nacional do Azulejo
One of the jewels in the collections of the Museu Nacional do Azulejo (National Museum of Azulejo) is a renaissance azulejo panel representing the Annunciation and the Adoration of the Shepherds, originally from Nossa Senhora da Vida (Our Lady of Life) chapel of the now demolished Santo André (Saint Andrew) church in Lisbon. Before the chapel was demolished, in 1845, the panel was removed and put in storage, while a second panel, considered of lesser value, was left in place and presumably destroyed. An archaeological excavation in 2018 on the site of the church unearthed fragments of figurative azulejos, thought to be part of the lost panel. This paper includes the results of an analytical study of azulejos from both the Nossa Senhora da Vida panel and from the excavated shard, compares the results and discusses the possibility that the findings were indeed once part of the lost azulejo panel.
