Author: PAULINO, FRANSCISCO FARIA
Title: Portuguese Expansion Overseas and the Art of Ivory
Description: Comissão para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses. 1991. Soft cover. Book, English text.; Paperback.; 23 x 30 cm.; 1.1 Kg.; 205 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with wear marks on the front cover, spine and back cover. Edge wear. Signs of wear on the interior. The bottom of the spine has a tiny tear at the bottom.; Catalogue from an exhibition held at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, from June 25th to September, 1991 to commemorate the Portuguese Discoveries.; "Recalling the Portuguese Voyages of Discovery is also to remember the adventures of those men who throughout history, with their seaborne travels, laid the foundations for modern knowledge and opened new frontiers to the world. This exhibition is both an attempt to understand that past and to show us a sensitive artistic and delicate style which is evidence for two constant motifs in the history of Portuguese overseas expansion - its civilizing influence as its shown by these artists and the huge distances covered by them, an influence which stretched from Africa to Japan." excerpt from the preface. Fair/No Jacket.

Keywords: ivory,exhibition,gulbenkian


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