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Baixos-Relevos no Museu de Arte Popular (Fachada poente)

Reliefs at the Folk Art Museum (West façade)

Júlio de Sousa
1948

Lisboa / Baixos-Relevos no Museu de Arte Popular (Fachada poente)

Description

Two groups of bas-reliefs with scenes alluding to rural and fishing activities in the different regions of Portugal, made by Júlio de Sousa as part of the adaptation project of the previous Pavilion of the Section of the Popular Life of the Portuguese World Exhibition, 1940, that gave origin to the present Museum of Folk Art, inaugurated in 1948.

Lisboa - Baixos-Relevos no Museu de Arte Popular (Fachada poente)

Sculptor

Júlio de Sousa (Lisboa 1906 - 1966), Portuguese sculptor, painter, composer and poet (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Alexandre Pomar, A escultura do Museu de Arte Popular.
Helena Elias, 'Um espaço de representação:arte pública e transformações urbanas na zona ribeirinha de Belém', On the W@terfront 6 (September, 2004, Arte público / Espaciopúblico, Universidade de Barcelona) (PDF-online).
Museu de Arte Popular, Offical website.
Patrimonio Cultural, Edifício do Museu de Arte Popular.

Locatie (N 38°41'36" - W 9°12'31") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ptli080; Photograph: 30 August 2017
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