Guided Tour — Season 1, Episode 11: Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea-Museu do Chiado, Lisboa

Episode synopsis

The portrait of the poet Antero de Quental painted by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro seems to predict Antero’s suicide which would take place two years later. Columbano never painted what he saw but what he felt and that’s why it’s said that he captured the soul of those he portrayed and the spirit of the times that were being lived. A great Portuguese painter who deserves universal recognition.

About Guided Tour

Guided Tour is a television and radio program about the treasures of the Portuguese cultural heritage. Treasures with recognized universal value, pieces that any western country would be proud to integrate into its heritage, and little known to the Portuguese. From a silver goblet with Mozarabic decoration and a thousand years old to a cloister that is referred to as a masterpiece of European Renaissance, passing through a collection of African art classified as one of the best in the world, the nature of objects, their context geographic location and historical time vary from episode to episode.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Sé de Braga
• E2Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisboa
• E3Museu Machado de Castro e Convento de Santa Clara-a-Nova, Coimbra
• E4Museu de Alberto Sampaio, Guimarães
• E5Museu Grão Vasco, Viseu
• E7Convento de Cristo, Tomar
• E8Convento da Madre de Deus, Lisboa
• E9Mosteiro de Tibães, Braga
• E10Universidade de Coimbra
• E12Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisboa
• E13Museu Soares dos Reis, Porto