Misplaced Pages

#236763

43-480: The permanent exhibition and galleries are distributed chronologically and in geographical order to create two independent circuits within the overall tour. The first circuit highlights Greco-Roman art from classical antiquity , as well as art from the ancient Near East and the Nile Valley . Among the artworks are ancient Egyptian , Mesopotamian , Persian , and Armenian pieces, as well as Persian art from

86-924: A major role in establishing a regime on land use and spatial planning, by creating the protected areas of the National Agricultural Reserve, the National Ecological Reserve and the bases of the Municipal Master Plan. As a member in the Assembly of the Republic he had responsibilities in the proposals of the Law of Bases of the Environment, the Law of Regionalization, the Conditioning Law of

129-727: A member of the Catholic Agrarian and Rural Youth, a youth structure linked to Portuguese Catholic Action. In 1945, he participated in the foundation of the National Culture Center, of which he is now the number one associate, and also President of the General Assembly, in whose sessions he accentuated his opposition to Salazar's regime. With Francisco Sousa Tavares, in 1957 he founded the Movement of Independent Monarchists, which would be followed by

172-528: A park bordered by the Avenida de Berna (north), Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar (west), Rua Marquês de Sá da Bandeira (east) and the Centro de Arte Moderna (south). The shape of the museum and headquarters is relatively simple, with T-shaped wings, each with an entrance. The massive volume, long and horizontal was used for administration, services and as auditoriums, off of the main, single entry space. It

215-480: A selection of 15th, 16th and 17th century sculptures and paintings. Renaissance art produced in the Netherlands, Flanders , France and Italy is on display in the next room. French 18th century decorative art has a special place in the museum, with outstanding gold and silver objects and furniture, as well as paintings and sculptures. This section is followed by galleries exhibiting a large group of paintings by

258-541: Is in this entrance that the panel Começar , by Almada Negreiros is situated. Greco-Roman The Greco-Roman civilization ( / ˌ ɡ r iː k oʊ ˈ r oʊ m ən , ˌ ɡ r ɛ k oʊ -/ ; also Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture ; spelled Graeco-Roman in British English ), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and countries that culturally—and so historically—were directly and intimately influenced by

301-698: Is the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 's garden, which he signed with António Viana Barreto and which earned him, ex aequo, the Valmor Prize of 1975. Also in the capital, it is worth mentioning the set of projects that conceived, between 1998 and 2002, at the request of the City Council, the main and secondary green structures of the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, and which are now in different stages of implementation:

344-752: The Agri Decumates , southwestern Germany ), the Illyricum (modern-day Northern Albania , Montenegro , Bosnia and Herzegovina and the coast of Croatia ), the Macedonian region , Thrace (corresponding to modern-day Southeastern Bulgaria , Northeastern Greece and the European portion of Turkey ), Moesia (roughly corresponding to modern-day Central Serbia , Kosovo , Northern Macedonia , Northern Bulgaria and Romanian Dobrudja ), and Pannonia (corresponding to modern-day Western Hungary ,

387-584: The Austrian Länder of Burgenland , Eastern Slovenia and Northern Serbia ). Also included were Dacia (roughly corresponding to modern-day Romania and Moldavia ), Nubia (a region roughly corresponding to the far south of Egypt and modern-day Northern Sudan ), Mauretania (corresponding to modern-day Morocco , Western Algeria and Northern Mauritania ), Arabia Petraea (corresponding to modern-day Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia , Jordan , Southern Syria and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula ), and

430-798: The Earth Party Movement , whose presidency he abandoned in 2007. In 2010, integrating the Citizenship and Marriage Platform, he publicly spoke out against same-sex marriage , legalized at the time in Portugal. In 2009 and 2013, he supported the candidacy headed by António Costa in the municipal elections for the Municipality of Lisbon. In 2016, at the IndieLisboa film festival, the documentary A Vossa Terra - landscapes of Gonçalo Ribeiro Teles, by director João Mário Grilo,

473-655: The Iberian Peninsula , the Anatolian Peninsula (modern-day Turkey ), Gaul (modern-day France ), the Syrian region (modern-day Levantine countries , Central and Northern Syria , Lebanon and Palestine ), Egypt and Roman Africa (corresponding to modern-day Tunisia , Eastern Algeria and Western Libya ). Occupying the periphery of that world were the so-called "Roman Germany" (the modern-day Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and

SECTION 10

#1732787647237

516-528: The Islamic period. The second circuit includes European art , with sections dedicated to the art of the book, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts , particularly 18th century French art and the work of René Lalique . In this circuit, a wide-ranging number of pieces reflect various European artistic trends from the beginning of the 11th century to the mid-20th century. The section begins with works in ivory and illuminated manuscript books, followed by

559-796: The Lisbon City Council Ribeiro Telles worked at the Division of Arborisation and Gardening (1951-55) until he assumed the role of Landscape Architect in the Office of Urbanisation Studies (directed by the engineer Guimarães Lobato) in 1955,and remained until 1960. From 1971 to 1974 he also directed, as a landscape architect, the Biophysical planning and Green Spaces Sector of the Housing Development Fund. The most recognized project of his career

602-549: The Lisbon City Council immediately after finishing his studies. Ribeiro Telles started teaching at the Higher Institute of Agronomy ( ISA ) in 1963, as a disciple of Francisco Caldeira Cabral , the pioneer of landscape architecture in Portugal. Together with Caldeira Cabral, they published in 1960, the first edition of "A Árvore in Portugal", a reference work on tree species existing in our country. In

645-883: The Parthenon and the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, and the Erechtheum , next to the Parthenon, is Ionic. By AD 211, with Caracalla 's edict known as the Constitutio Antoniniana , and although one of the edict's main purposes was to increase tax revenue, all of the empire's free men became citizens with all the rights this entailed. As a result, even after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire ,

688-602: The Res Gestae , exemplifies the official recognition of the dual vehicles for the common culture. The familiarity of figures from Roman legend and history in the Parallel Lives by Plutarch is one example of the extent to which " universal history " was then synonymous with the accomplishments of famous Latins and Hellenes . Most educated Romans were likely bilingual in Greek and Latin. Graeco-Roman architecture in

731-1089: The Alcântara Valley and Radial de Benfica, the Chelas Valley, the Peripheral Park, the Monsanto Green Corridor and the Integration into the Main Green Structure of Lisbon of the Eastern and Western Riverside Zone. Among his other projects, it is also worth noting the public space of the Estacas District, in Alvalade ; the gardens of the Chapel of St. Jerome in Restelo; the vegetation cover of

774-645: The Byzantine Empire (the Eastern Roman Empire) fell to the Turks led by Mehmed II in 1453. There is a perception that these events led to the predecessor of Greek nationalism through the Ottoman era and even into modern times. Greco-Roman mythology , sometimes called classical mythology , is the result of the syncretism between Roman and Greek myths, spanning the period of Great Greece at

817-697: The Monarchical Popular League and the Portuguese Renewal. After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, with Francisco Rolão Preto , Henrique Barrilaro Ruas, João Camossa de Saldanha, Augusto Ferreira do Amaral, Luís Coimbra, among others, he founded the People's Monarchist Party , whose Directory he presided over. He was Undersecretary of State for the Environment in the I, II and III Provisional Governments, and Secretary of State of

860-645: The Parque de Santa Gertrudes, in April 1957, for the construction of the Foundation buildings and public/private park. Two years later, a competition was launched for a project to construct the organization's headquarters. It was eventually won by the team that included architects Alberto J. Pessoa, Pedro Cid and Ruy Jervis d'Athouguia (1917-2006), in addition to the landscaping architects António Viana Barreto and Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles , who were responsible for designing

903-597: The Persian emperor Darius III and conquest of the Persian empire , or the later Roman generals' difficulties with the Persian armies, such as Pompey the Great , and of Marcus Licinius Crassus (conqueror of the slave general Spartacus ), who was defeated in the field by a Persian force and was beheaded by them. In the schools of art , philosophy , and rhetoric , the foundations of education were transmitted throughout

SECTION 20

#1732787647237

946-891: The Planting of Eucalyptus, the Law of Wastelands, the Hunting Law, and the Environmental Impact Law. In 1984, after leaving the government, he founded the Alfacinha Movement, with which he presented himself candidate for the City Council of Lisbon , winning a seat as councillor. In 1985 , he returned to the Assembly of the Republic, now as an independent member, elected on the lists of the Socialist Party (PS) . In 1993, he founded

989-676: The Popular Monarchical Movement. In 1958, he expressed his support for the presidential candidacy of Humberto Delgado . In 1959, he was among the signatories of the Letter to Salazar on repression services. In 1967, during the Lisbon floods, he publicly imposed himself against the existing urbanization policies. In 1969, he was part of the Monarchical Electoral Commission, which joins

1032-531: The Roman world followed the principles and style that had been established by ancient Greece. That era's most representative building was the temple. Other prominent structures that represented that style included government buildings like the Roman Senate . The three primary styles of column design used in temples in classical Greece were Doric , Ionic , and Corinthian . Some examples of Doric architecture are

1075-599: The Tauric Chersonesus (modern-day Crimea and the coast of Ukraine ). The Greco-Roman world had another "world" or empire to its east, the Persians, with which there was constant interaction: Xenophon 's Anabasis (the ' March Upcountry ' ), the Greco-Persian wars , the famous battles of Marathon and Salamis , the Greek tragedy The Persians by Aeschylus , Alexander the Great 's defeat of

1118-534: The Venetian Francesco Guardi , 18th and 19th century English paintings, and finally a superb collection of jewels and glass by René Lalique , displayed in its own room. Some of the works in the collection were bought during the Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings . Of about 6000 items in the museum's collections, a selection of around 1000 is on permanent exhibition. Gulbenkian's motto was "only

1161-889: The best"; hence the museum has masterpieces by western European artists such as Domenico Ghirlandaio , Rubens , Rembrandt , Rodin , Carpeaux , Houdon , Renoir , Dierick Bouts , Vittore Carpaccio , Cima da Conegliano , Van Dyck , Corot , Degas , Nattier , George Romney , Stefan Lochner , Maurice-Quentin de La Tour , Édouard Manet , Henri Fantin-Latour , Claude Monet , Jean-François Millet , Sir Edward Burne-Jones , Thomas Gainsborough , Joseph Mallord William Turner , Jean-Honoré Fragonard , Giovanni Battista Moroni , Frans Hals , Ruisdael , Boucher , Largillière , Andrea della Robbia , Pisanello , Jean-Baptiste Pigalle , Antonio Rossellino , André-Charles Boulle , Charles Cressent , Oeben , Riesener , Antoine-Sébastien Durand , Charles Spire , Jean Deforges , François-Thomas Germain . Vasco Maria Eugénio de Almeida acquired part of

1204-492: The end of Roman paganism . Along with philosophy and political theory , mythology is one of the greatest contributions of Classical antiquity to Western society . From a historical point of view, early Christianity was born in the Greco-Roman world, which had a massive influence on Christian culture . Gon%C3%A7alo Ribeiro Telles Gonçalo Pereira Ribeiro Telles (25 May 1922 – 11 November 2020)

1247-681: The first Portuguese politicians to call attention to ecological problems, having an influence far beyond the tiny size of the parties he led. Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles graduated in Agronomy Engineering and finished the Free Course in Landscape Architecture at the Higher Institute of Agronomy of the Technical University of Lisbon (ISA) in 1951. He began his professional life in the services of

1290-474: The hill of The Castle of St. George; the Amália Rodrigues Garden, next to Eduardo VII Park, designed in 1996. As a guest full professor, he taught at the University of Évora , where he created in the 1990s his degrees in Landscape Architecture and Biophysical Engineering. In April 2013 he was awarded the Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Prize, the most important international distinction in landscape architecture. Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles began his public intervention as

1333-411: The interior finishing were adjudicated, with the project concluded in 1968. On 2 October 1969, the buildings and gardens were inaugurated. The 12th International Federation of Landscaping Architects Congress was held in September 1970 on the grounds of the Gulbenkian Foundation. In 1975, the property was distinguished with the Valmor Prize. The museum was designed as a showcase for the collection, which

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - Misplaced Pages Continue

1376-494: The lands of Greek and Roman rule. Within its educated class, spanning all of the "Greco-Roman" eras, the testimony of literary borrowings and influences are overwhelming proofs of a mantle of mutual knowledge. For example, several hundred papyrus volumes found in a Roman villa at Herculaneum are in Greek. The lives of Cicero and Julius Caesar are examples of Romans who frequented schools in Greece. The installation, both in Greek and Latin , of Augustus 's monumental eulogy,

1419-456: The language, culture, government and religion of the Greeks and Romans . A better-known term is classical antiquity . In exact terms the area refers to the "Mediterranean world" , the extensive tracts of land centered on the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, the "swimming pool and spa" of the Greeks and the Romans, in which those peoples' cultural perceptions, ideas, and sensitivities became dominant in classical antiquity . That process

1462-430: The languages of the urban and cosmopolitan elites and the Empire's lingua franca for those who lived within the large territories and populations outside the Macedonian settlements and the Roman colonies . All Roman citizens of note and accomplishment, regardless of their ethnic extractions, spoke and wrote in Greek or Latin. Examples include the Roman jurist and imperial chancellor Ulpian of Phoenician origin;

1505-409: The lists of Mário Soares 's Portuguese Socialist Action in the Electoral Commission of Democratic Unity (CEUD) coalition, led by Soares, to run for the National Assembly. He would not be elected, like the other members of the democratic opposition lists. In 1971, he helped found the Monarchical Convergence movement, a meeting of three monarchical resistance movements: the Popular Monarchical Movement,

1548-440: The mathematician and geographer Claudius Ptolemy of Greco-Egyptian ethnicity; and the theologian Augustine of Berber origin. Note too the historian Josephus Flavius , who was of Jewish origin but spoke and wrote in Greek. Based on the above definition, the "cores" of the Greco-Roman world can be confidently stated to have been the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea , specifically the Italian Peninsula , Greece , Cyprus ,

1591-431: The park surrounding the building. Later, Francisco Caetano Keil do Amaral was added to the team, as a consultant, and Frederico Henrique George joined the team working on the building. In December 1961, the anterior project of the park was begun, while work on the earthworks and retaining walls beginning the following year. A sculpture panel was installed in the headquarters building by architect Artur Rosa in 1962. By 1967,

1634-411: The people who remained within the lands (including Byzantium) that the empire comprised continued to call themselves Rhomaioi . ( Hellenes had been referring to pagan, or non-Christian, Greeks until the Fourth Crusade .) Through attrition of Byzantine territory in the preceding 400 or so years from perceived friends and foes alike (Crusaders, Ottoman Turks, and others), Constantinople, the capital of

1677-517: The same portfolio, in the 1st Constitutional Government , headed by Mário Soares . In 1979, he allied himself with Francisco Sá Carneiro in the formation of the Democratic Alliance, a coalition through which he was elected deputy to the Assembly of the Republic, consecutively, in the legislatives of 1979, 1980 and 1983. Between 1981 and 1983, he was part of the VIII Constitutional Government , headed by Francisco Pinto Balsemão , as Minister of State and Quality of Life. During his ministry, he assumes

1720-433: Was a Portuguese politician and landscape architect . He was born and died in Lisbon . He was a founder of the People's Monarchist Party in 1974, and led it until 1992, when he left the party. In 1993 co-founded and presided the ecologist movement party Movimento Partido da Terra , today called MPT – Partido da Terra. He was also Minister for Quality of Life in the Democratic Alliance government, and one of

1763-433: Was aided by the universal adoption of Greek as the language of intellectual culture and commerce in the Eastern Mediterranean and of Latin as the language of public administration and of forensic advocacy , especially in the Western Mediterranean. Greek and Latin were never the native languages of many or most of the rural peasants, who formed the great majority of the Roman Empire 's population. However, they became

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - Misplaced Pages Continue

1806-465: Was presented. On 31 October 1969, by president Américo Tomás, the rank of Officer of the Ancient, Most Noble and Enlightened Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, of the Scientific, Literary and Artistic Merit On 6 April 1988, by president Mário Soares, the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ On 10 June 1990, by president Mário Soares, the Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty On 25 May 2017, by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa ,

1849-458: Was relatively unique for an art museum at a time when most museums were housed in buildings originally built for other purposes. The landscaping and museum building interact, with views into woods and wetlands punctuating the artwork on display, while woodland paths offer views of the dramatic building, the edges of which include terraces and water features that blur the border between built and natural environment. The grouped buildings are set within

#236763