The Museum Medina is located in Braga

Braga

Braga , a city in the Braga Municipality in northwestern Portugal, is the capital of the Braga District, the oldest archdiocese and the third major city of the country. Braga is the oldest Portuguese city and one of the oldest Christian cities in the World...

, Portugal

Portugal

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, in the same building of the Pius XII Museum

Pius XII Museum

The Pius XII Museum is located in Braga, Portugal, in the same building of the Museum Medina, as the name from the Pope Pius XII....

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The collection comprises 83 oil painting

Oil painting

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...

s and 21 drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

s of the painter Henrique Medina

Henrique Medina

Henrique Medina de Barros was a Portuguese painter, the son of a Portuguese mother and a Spanish father...

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Among the collection there are many portraits, still life

Still life

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...

 and landscapes.

The museum was inaugurated on 21 June 1984, and was donated by the artist himself.

Henrique Medina

Henrique Medina

Henrique Medina de Barros was a Portuguese painter, the son of a Portuguese mother and a Spanish father...

 (1901-1988) was born in Porto

Porto

Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...

 where he graduated in art. He also studied in Paris

Paris

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, Rome

Rome

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 and London

London

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His work is represented in many different museums in Portugal

Portugal

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and other countries.