One of the paintings on the streets of Lisbon was stolen – TSF Online

The exhibition is an initiative of the National Museum of Ancient Art (NMAA), and brings together high-quality reproductions – but no book value – of 31 masterpieces of the entity’s assets posted outside buildings in the Chiado area, Bairro Alto and Príncipe Real.

Contacted by Lusa, the director of the NMAA, António Filipe Pimentel said that the disappearance of the work, reproduction of the original painted in the sixteenth century by an unknown Portuguese painter, “is not a surprise. “

” This situation was predictable and also happened in London, where a similar initiative was launched, “noted Philip Pimentel, adding that” there is curious and even comic that has gone the frame “Hell” in the first 48 hours of the opening of the exhibition “.

The museum stresses that the missing reproduction” has no book value, commercial or material. “

” ComingOut. And the Museum came out into the street? ” follows the project developed in London, in the districts of Convent Garden, Soho and Chinatown, the National Gallery, called “The Grand Tour”.

The director of the NMAA stressed that the exhibition has had a great impact on the streets with passers-by to photograph the paintings, as well as on social networks, since it was released, with thousands of views and shares. Filipe Pimentel added that the museum is considering whether or not to replace the work.

About the security exposure in the streets, indicated that were not implemented special measures, but esclereceu that there are places where there are cameras and are sites of passage. “We believe that people will welcome and estimate the exhibited works,” he said.

There was also, in these two days of “ComingOut” museum, an attempt to remove the play “Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist “, painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, in 1510-1515.

” King portrait Sebastian “, painted in 1571 by Christopher de Morais,” Lady of Sorrows, “Quentin metsys, 1511, and “Virgin with the Child and Saints” by Hans Holbein the Elder, painted in 1519, are some of the question reproductions exhibited in the streets of those old areas of the city.

With this project , the museum – which holds one of the most important spoils of Portuguese art – aims to promote the artistic heritage and history to the Portuguese national and foreign public. “ComingOut. And the Museum came out into the street?” was prepared over several months and involved the survey, by technicians from the NMAA and the Lisbon City Council (CML), the streets of the real estate.