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This tile artwork by Maria Keil, "Pastores" (Shepherds) is at the Museu Nacionaldo Azulejo in Lisbon. Walking through the museum, I came across this, which was easily the coolest piece in the gallery.

And that led me down the rabbit hole of wikipedia, where I learned more about this amazing person, who many among other things did the tile for the Lisbon subway:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ke

Mentally, i'm here. Physically sitze ich auf meiner Couch und frage mich ob #Flashes was kann und ob ich wirklich noch ein insta-like Social Network brauche und ob ich mich nicht einfach für immer ausloggen sollte (bis mir einfällt dass ich in der medienbranche arbeite und 100% meiner arbeit online stattfindet) - schade. jedenfalls ist das mein Lieblingsbild aus meinem Urlaub und die Kathedrale von Porto war das Highlight, trotz der Tourimassen, mit denen ich im März nicht gerechnet hatte: Ein Foto dieser Kathedrale war vor ca. 7 Jahren der Grund, wieso Porto auf meine Travel-Bucket-Liste kam.

#photography #porto #portocathedral #tiles #azulejos #travelphotography #architecture #architecturephotography #portugal #cathedral #omsystem #omsystemde
Visita técnica com os colegas de trabalho no Palacete Pinho (1897), antiga residência do comendador Antônio José de Pinho, hoje transformado em um núcleo de artes, cultura e educação. Com estilo eclético, é revestido de azulejos policromados alemães, encomendados da fábrica Ville Roy & Boch.

* Technical visit with co-workers at the Palacete Pinho (1897), former residence of Commander Antônio José de Pinho, now transformed into a institution of arts, culture and education. With eclectic style, it is covered with German polychrome tiles, ordered from the Ville Roy & Boch factory.

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Here, the metallised tiles are incidental but their colours are more dramatic. There is hot magenta and pink, alongside orange. The mirrored windows capture a distorted, fragmented image of the church opposite, which is heavily embellished with brightly coloured ceramic tiles.