Azulejo (Portuguese: [ɐzuˈle(j)ʒu, ɐzuˈlɐjʒu], Spanish: [aθuˈlexo]; from the Arabic الزليج, al-zillīj) is a form of Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed...
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The Museu Nacional do Azulejo (Portuguese for National Museum of the Azulejo), occasionally known in English as the National Tile Museum, is an art museum...
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The Casa de los Azulejos ("House of Tiles") or Palacio de los Condes del Valle de Orizaba (Palace of the Counts of Valley of Orizaba) is an 18th-century...
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Chapel of Santa Catarina (category Buildings and structures with azulejos in Portugal)
the city of Porto, in Portugal. It is particularly noted for the blue azulejo tiles on its exterior walls. The chapel had its origins in an old wooden...
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The Casa de Azulejo (English: "House of Azulejos") is a 19th-century historic home in the Saúde neighborhood in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It was built in...
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Casa de Pilatos (category Buildings and structures with azulejos in Andalusia)
different azulejo (Spanish glazed tile) designs made in the 1530s by the brothers Diego and Juan Pulido, one of the largest early-modern azulejo collections...
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São Bento railway station (category Buildings and structures with azulejos in Portugal)
architect José Marques da Silva. The large panels of around twenty thousand azulejo tiles (551 square meters) were designed and painted by Jorge Colaço. The...
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of this parish that hides treasures such as the National Museum of the Azulejo or the Palacio do Grilo. Belém is famous as the place from which many of...
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1715, but no reference to a period of construction or completion. The azulejo tile was applied to the church in 1730 by Policarpo de Oliveira Bernardes...
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Pombal, Portugal e a NATO (Portugal and NATO) and A História Do Azulejo (History of Azulejo). Canal História comemora cinco anos de emissões com formatos...
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Tomás Taveira is also noteworthy, particularly for stadium design. The azulejo is a mainstream, typical element among Portugal's traditional building...
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November 1940. The facade, main entrance and fish market contain traditional Azulejo (panels of tiles) depicting regional themes, executed by João Rodrigues...
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Azulejo tile image of Brites de Almeida killing Castilian soldiers...
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1942) was a Portuguese painter specially known for his works as tile (azulejo) painter. Jorge Colaço was born in Tangier, Morocco, the son of a Portuguese...
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Convent in Lisbon, Portugal contained a previously unknown, large panoramic azulejo depicting Queen Ketavan's martyrdom in Persia. The scenes were based on...
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Maria Keil (section Azulejos/Lisbon Metro)
and diversified work that included painting, drawing and illustration, azulejo tiles, graphic and furniture design, tapestry and scenography. Particularly...
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traditional tile design, and that of the Portuguese tin-glazed ceramic azulejo in particular. Effortlessly blending these two seemingly-irreconcilable...
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Fuente de los Azulejos is an unusual rock formation on the island of Gran Canaria. The name literally means "fountain of tiles", because of the colour...
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for walls. Azulejos were also used in Latin American architecture. Quadra (architecture) of St. John the Baptist covered with azulejos in carpet style...
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Ponce, and many others who had come with them. There is a commemorative azulejo mural of the battle in São Bento railway station. In Arcos de Valdevez...
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Alcázar of Seville (category Buildings and structures with azulejos in Andalusia)
replaced by a panel of azulejo designed by Manuel Tortosa y Fernández, with the historical advice of José Gestoso. The azulejo was made in the Mensaque...
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decorative (and functional) wrought iron gratings and the tiles known as azulejos. Landscaping—both for common private homes and homes on a more lavish scale—also...
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Palace of Mafra, Mafra, Portugal, by João Frederico Ludovice, 1717–1755 Azulejo in the cloisters of the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, Portugal...
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Cave, Galdar Caves of Valeron Natural sites Bandama Caldera Fuente de los Azulejos Guayadeque ravine Pico de las Nieves Pilancones Roque Nublo General Jardín...
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features a retable by the Italian artist Nicolau Nasoni and a façade of 1932 azulejo tilework. The church is named in honour of the Visigoth, Ildephonsus of...
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Resistance and Liberty National Museum of Archaeology National Museum of the Azulejo National Coach Museum National Museum of Ancient Art National Museum of...
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An azulejo of the Virgin Queen of Peace from El Salvador in the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, Israel....
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based on plans by architect José Marques da Silva. The large panels of azulejo tile were designed by Jorge Colaço; the murals represent moments in the...
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macramè. Very used in Genoa is the cobblestone called Risseu and a kind of azulejo called laggioni. Genoa has been likened by many to a Mediterranean New...
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Azulejo tile image of Brites de Almeida killing Castilian soldiers...
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