The Chiado Museum is an art museum located in Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...

, in the Chiado neighbourhood

Chiado

Chiado is the name of a square and its surrounding area in the city of Lisbon, in Portugal. The Chiado is located between the neighbourhoods of Bairro Alto and Baixa Pombalina....

. It was created in 1911 and re-inaugurated, in new installations, in 1994.

The museum covers the period between 1850 and 1950, with works by the foremost Portuguese artists of the period, as well as some foreigners. It holds the best collection of Portuguese painting and sculpture from the Romanticism, Naturalism and Modern periods.

Among the artists represented are António Silva Porto

António Silva Porto

António de Carvalho da Silva Porto was a Portuguese naturalist painter.Born in Porto, he studied there under João António Correia and T. Furtado, then continued his studies in Paris and Rome....

, António Carneiro

António Carneiro

António Carneiro was a Portuguese painter, perhaps the most innovative from the second naturalist generation, even more than Aurélia de Souza....

, António Soares dos Reis

António Soares dos Reis

António Soares dos Reis was a Portuguese sculptor.-Studies:He first studied at the Portuense Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in sculpture in 1867. He studied at the Fine Arts Imperial School of Paris, from 1867 to 1870, where he achieved several prizes, and in Rome...

, Miguel Ângelo Lupi

Miguel Ângelo Lupi

Miguel Ângelo Lupi was a Portuguese Romantic painter. He was a professor of historical painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon....

, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro , who is usually referred to as Columbano, was a Portuguese Realist painter...

, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso was a Portuguese artist, working in the style of the vanguard of his time. Although he lived a short life, his workmanship was legendary.- Life :He was born in Mancelos, a parish of Amarante...

, Abel Manta

Abel Manta

Abel Manta was an architect, painter, designer, and Portuguese cartoonist.Between 1904 and 1916 attended the school of Fine Arts, completed the course in painting, having won the third Prize of the National Society of Fine Arts.In 1919 he went to Paris participating in the "Salon de la Société...

, Dórdio Gomes, José de Almada Negreiros, Nadir Afonso

Nadir Afonso

Nadir Afonso, GOSE is a geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he practiced early in his career with Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, Nadir Afonso later studied painting in Paris and became one of the pioneers in Kinetic art, working alongside Victor Vasarely,...

, Mário Eloy

Mário Eloy

Mário Eloy was a Portuguese expressionist painter.Eloy was born in Lisboa. His style shows the influence of painters like van Gogh, Picasso and, mostly, from the German expressionist painting, that he admired during his staying in Germany, from 1927 to 1932, specially Carl Hofer.After returning...

, Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

François-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...

, and many others. The museum also hosts temporary exhibitions.

Since 1994, the Chiado Museum has occupied the old Convent of São Francisco (Saint Francis) in Lisbon, a building of mediaeval origin. The adaptation and renovation of the convent were done by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte

Jean-Michel Wilmotte

-Biography:Born in Soissons in 1948, Jean-Michel Wilmotte studied interior design at the Camondo school of interior design in Paris. Just two years after graduating, he founded his own agency in Paris in 1975...

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