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The halls of the Lisbon Museum of Ancient Art, which tell the story of Portuguese furniture from the 15th to the 19th century, reopen the public after a renovation on Tuesday, with a dresser that holds a "secret".
On the first floor of the museum, after "major renovations", the rooms reopen with a new museum, more information, lights installed to enhance the rooms and a new signage, explained in detail. agency Lusa Conceição Borges Sousa, curator of the National Museum of Ancient Art
Chairs, tables, chests, cabinets, devotional objects, such as small chairs and beds where the Little Jesus was sitting and lying, and the thrones, fill the different rooms that present, chronologically, five centuries of Portuguese Furniture History in various styles. "This exhibition helps to understand, through the furniture, much of the private life of Portuguese society in different times, and, on the other hand, demonstrates the enormous skill of Portuguese carpenters, and their extraordinary work, "says Conceição Borges Sousa [19659002] The official explained to Lusa that there were 15 new pieces that were introduced on the course, renovated, and at least six had never been exhibited at public. The iconic furniture was chosen for each period, namely, just outside the entrance, a Gothic closet door, which displays the decorative lines of his time, inspired by the linen folds of clothing used, explained.
Further on is the chair of King Afonso V, in oak, dating from 1470, from the convent of Varatojo, which creates a set of power through other rooms that flank it, like a tapestry depicting the king sitting. "It's very rare."
The halls reveal a path that crosses the Renaissance, maritime expansion, mannerism, baroque, furniture D. José or D. Maria
Among the rooms there is a dresser that hides a secret: "It is very rare and very important for the museum because it has the date, 1790, and the name of the author – Domingos Tenuta – written in a very hidden place ". By opening several parts of the dresser – which have very elaborate carved patterns – and by removing some drawers, you can see, on the back of one of them, written in gold, the name of the dresser. author on a strip of wood that opens in turn.
For five months, the pieces that were removed previously were removed and many of them were restored, with the collaboration of the restaurateur Sofia Júlio, who worked on 111 copies.
Eighty percent of this furniture comes from extinct convents in Portugal, the expert said, adding that the materials used vary and that the discoveries arrive in Portugal in woods from other regions, with Brazil or India.
The route also has the upholstered chair that will have belonged to Queen Maria Francisca de Sabóia, coming from the convent of Francesinhas, a crow hoop in the form of a burst of the century
For the reopening rooms with the new exhibition, the curator also points out that in the eighteenth century, several counters and chests – versatile for carrying, sleeping or eating – and the throne of Pedro IV, decorated in white and red. the collaboration of Patrícia Machado, in the organization of tables with information on the pieces, and Miguel Metelo de Seixas, specialist of the heraldry, as well as the patronage of the Millenium BCP Foundation.
Established in 1884, the National Museum of Art Antiga hosts the largest public collection of ancient art in the country, in painting, sculpture, Portuguese decorative arts, European and Portuguese maritime expansion, Middle Ages in the nineteenth century, being one of the national museums with the largest number of works classified as national treasures.
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