{"id":209,"date":"2015-06-13T21:18:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisbonstopover.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2015-07-19T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T16:36:20","slug":"calouste-gulbenkian-museum-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0<\/span>Calouste Gulbenkian Museum<\/b>\u00a0(<\/span>Portuguese:\u00a0<\/span>Museu Calouste Gulbenkian<\/b><\/i><\/span>) is a museum in\u00a0<\/span>Lisbon,\u00a0<\/span>Portugal, containing a collection of ancient, and some modern, art. The museum was founded according to\u00a0<\/span>Calouste Gulbenkian‘s last will, in order to accommodate and display Gulbenkian’s art collection belonging now to the\u00a0<\/span>Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The permanent exhibition galleries are distributed in chronological and geographical order to create two independent circuits within the overall tour.<\/p>\n

The first circuit highlights\u00a0Greco-Roman\u00a0art from\u00a0classical antiquity\u00a0and art from the\u00a0ancient Near East\u00a0including\u00a0Egyptian,\u00a0Mesopotamian,\u00a0Persian\u00a0and\u00a0Armenian\u00a0art as well as Persian art from the\u00a0Islamic\u00a0period.<\/p>\n

The second circuit covers\u00a0European art\u00a0with sections dedicated to the art of the book, sculpture, painting and the\u00a0decorative arts, particularly 18th century\u00a0French art\u00a0and the work of\u00a0Ren\u00e9 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.<\/p>\n

The section begins with work in ivory and illuminated\u00a0manuscript\u00a0books, followed by a selection of 15th, 16th and 17th century sculptures and paintings.<\/p>\n

Renaissance\u00a0art produced in the Netherlands,\u00a0Flanders, France and Italy is on display in the next room. French 18th century decorative arts have a special place in the museum with outstanding gold and silver objects and furniture, as well as paintings and sculptures. These decorative arts are followed by galleries exhibiting a large group of paintings by the Venetian\u00a0Francesco Guardi, 18th and 19th century English paintings, and finally a superb collection of jewels and glass by\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Lalique, displayed in its own room.<\/p>\n

Gulbenkian’s motto was “only the best”, and hence the museum has masterpieces by western European artists such as\u00a0Domenico Ghirlandaio,\u00a0Rubens,\u00a0Rembrandt,\u00a0Rodin,Carpeaux,\u00a0Houdon,\u00a0Renoir,\u00a0Dierick Bouts,\u00a0Vittore Carpaccio,\u00a0Cima da Conegliano,\u00a0Van Dyck,\u00a0Corot,\u00a0Degas,\u00a0Nattier,\u00a0George Romney,\u00a0Stefan Lochner,\u00a0Maurice-Quentin de La Tour,\u00a0\u00c9douard Manet,\u00a0Henri Fantin-Latour,\u00a0Claude Monet,\u00a0Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Millet,\u00a0Sir Edward Burne-Jones,\u00a0Thomas Gainsborough,\u00a0Joseph Mallord William Turner,\u00a0Jean-Honor\u00e9 Fragonard,\u00a0Giovanni Battista Moroni,\u00a0Frans Hals,\u00a0Ruisdael,\u00a0Boucher,\u00a0Largilli\u00e8re,\u00a0Andrea della Robbia,\u00a0Pisanello,\u00a0Jean-Baptiste Pigalle,\u00a0Antonio Rossellino,\u00a0Andr\u00e9-Charles Boulle,\u00a0Charles Cressent,\u00a0Oeben,\u00a0Riesener,Antoine-S\u00e9bastien Durand,\u00a0Charles Spire,\u00a0Jean Deforges,\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois-Thomas Germain.<\/p>\n

Some of the works in the collection were bought during the\u00a0Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings. Of the about 6000 items in the museum’s collections a selection of around 1000 is on permanent exhibition. The museum is located within a landscaped park, at the intersection of Av. de Berna and Av. Ant\u00f3nio Augusto de Aguiar, in Lisbon.<\/p>\n

The Calouste Gulbenkian Collection comprises some 6000 pieces. The Museum houses on the permanent exhibition galleries 1000 of its most representative works. A short selection choice of the most outstanding pieces in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum belonging to different sections.<\/p>\n

Mesopotamian Art
\nEastern Art
\nArmeniam Art
\nFar Eastern Art
\nSculpture
\nArt of The Book
\nPainting
\nDecorative Arts
\nRen\u00e9 Lalique<\/p>\n

Visitor information:<\/p>\n

Address:
\nAv. de Berna 45A
\n1067-001 Lisboa Codex
\nTel: 21 7823000
\nFax: 21 7823032<\/p>\n

Transport:
\nMetro: S. Sebasti\u00e3o or Pra\u00e7a de Espanha stations
\nBuses: 16, 726, 56, 718, 742<\/p>\n

Car Parks (pay):
\nAvenida de Berna and Avenida Visconde de Valbom<\/p>\n

Opening Times:
\nTuesday to Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5.45 p.m.
\nClosed on Mondays, and on the following holidays:
\nJanuary 1, Easter Sunday, May 1,
\nand December 25<\/p>\n

Access:
\nLift, ramps and toilet facilities for visitors with with mobility impairments<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Calouste Gulbenkian Museum\u00a0(Portuguese:\u00a0Museu Calouste Gulbenkian) is a museum in\u00a0Lisbon,\u00a0Portugal, containing a collection of ancient, and some modern, art. The museum was founded according to\u00a0Calouste Gulbenkian‘s last will, in order to accommodate and display Gulbenkian’s art collection belonging now to the\u00a0Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The permanent exhibition galleries are distributed in chronological and geographical order to create […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[31,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}