The Contemplative Flowers of Hope
In Lisbon, the tiles with emblems of the Convento da Esperança depict the beauty of flowers as a symbol of the contemplative life.
The Perfect Christian King
The Monastery of São Vicente de Fora main hall, with a gallery of royal portraits, has one of the most outstanding programs of images from the Portuguese 18th century.
The Erudite Discourse
The tile panels of the poetics class reproduce the main lines of the Jesuit educational program.
The Virtues of The Planets
Constantly, painters and poets used the solar system planets to represent the excellence of kings and nobility.
The Gallant Palace
The presence of a polite, well-dressed, and well-educated society is an essential complement to noble architecture.
As quatro virtudes primordiais
A definição de preceitos morais para um homem sábio foi um dos objetivos fundamentais da literatura humanista.
The Shortness of Life on the Emblems of António de Sousa de Macedo
The emblems created by the Portuguese diplomat António de Sousa de Macedo (1606-1682) are rooted in a deep humanist tradition and were designed to provide a scholarly discourse to architecture.
The Sacristy as Scenery of Moral and Mystical Allegories
In the sacristy of the Convento de Santo António do Varatojo, we can admire a series of figured tile panels that show a combined program of allegorical compositions from the illustrations of two 17th century influential books of devotional emblems.
The Otto van Veen’s Emblems in the Tiles of São Francisco da Bahia
The stoic moral background was the main reason for the choice of the emblems to be represented in the tiles of the Convent of Bahia.
The Teaching of Aeneid in Évora
Among the great classical poets who were to guide the learning of the Latin language, Virgil’s poetry was chosen as the principal model for much of the Jesuit literary production.
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