Ancient Art Museum is closed today the third floor for renovation until May – Digital Journal

The National Museum of Ancient Art (NMAA) in Lisbon today closed the third floor to the public for refurbishment, which should be completed in May, with new museology of Portuguese painting and sculpture collections.
 

Speaking to Lusa, José Alberto Seabra, deputy director of the NMAA, indicated that usually exhibits will be stored except the panels of São Vicente, which will be placed on the museum floor 1, the from Friday.

“It’s a museum’s key work and very popular with Portuguese and foreign visitors,” he said, on Nuno Gonçalves panels, considered a masterpiece of the sixteenth-century Portuguese painting.

The panels – large – will be placed in the room 55 of the first floor of the NMAA to be seen by the public

The works on the third floor of the museum will start 11th. January, and the target date for the reopening, with the refurbished floor is the month of May, according to the official.

The project aims to increase the permanent exhibition of paintings and Portuguese sculpture, a hundred of significant works for about 300 of these museum collection pieces.

“We want to show, more broadly, the history of painting and sculpture in Portugal, from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century” he said.

The works include painting walls, renewal of lighting conditions and introduction of new museological furniture.

The third floor received last major museum exhibitions, such as “Encompassing the Globe” about the impact of the Portuguese Discoveries in other cultures, which then also was in Washington, in the United States.

They were also patent the exhibitions “The Invention of Glory. D. Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries, “which made a European tour, and the exhibition” Portuguese Primitives (1450 and 1550) – The Century of Nuno Gonçalves “presented then in Spain

Created in 1884, the NMAA welcomes the most important public collection of ancient art in the country, from painting, sculpture, Portuguese decorative arts, European and the Portuguese Maritime Expansion, from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century, including the largest number of works classified as national treasures.

In addition to the Saint Vincent Panels, the collection also includes, among other treasures, the Custody of Bethlehem, Gil Vicente, dated 1506, till sent by King Manuel I, Namban screens, the late sixteenth century, which record the presence of the Portuguese in Japan.

Hieronymus Bosch, Piero della French, Hans Holbein the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Younger Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Dürer, Jan Steen, van Dyck, Murillo, Ribera, Nicolas Poussin, Tiepolo, Fragonard, Giordano are some of the European masters represented at the NMAA Collection

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