For anybody who likes art even there if they are not an expert (like me) there is something very enlightening to visit grand collections that have been made over the years. Calouste Gulbenkian (1869 -1955), an Armenian oil tycoon gave Portugal his art collection in gratitude for the hospitable asylum granted him in Lisbon during WWII. Of Armenian origin he was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul) then part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1889 he left Turkey and settled in London with his family. With the outbreak of the second world war, he settled in Lisbon where he would remain until his death. Here is a Wikipedia link to the museum.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calouste_Gulbenkian_Museum
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Highlights and lowlights from this years month of travels
It was a month packed with activities - I had wanted to go to New York and on the Queen Mary 2 again but also to attend the last concert of...
-
It was a month packed with activities - I had wanted to go to New York and on the Queen Mary 2 again but also to attend the last concert of...
-
The third day I was here I planned to go to Cascais. I was carrying my small wallet with the three credit cards, my drivers license and car...
-
I had a comfortable journey from Lisbon via Madrid to Heathrow, and then the tube to Saint Pancras and train to Canterbury. It was a great ...






No comments:
Post a Comment