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Sobrado Azulejado
The Sobrado Azulejado, also known as the Sobrado de Azulejos, is a late 19th-century commercial building in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It is located in the Comércio district on Praça Cayru, a public square, and close to the Mercado Modelo public market. The house is entirely glazed in azulejo, a tin-glazed ceramic tile; all of the tiles of the sobrado were manufactured in Portugal. The structure was listed as a national heritage site by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN) in 1969. Udo Knoff, a ceramics researcher, called the building "the most azulejo-tiled building" in Bahia. History The Sobrado Azulejado was built at the end of the 19th century, dedicated to the business of the Port of Salvador. By 1935 it was home to the Urban Planning Office for the City of Salvador (EPUCS). The building was sold in June 1949 and EPUCS was relocated elsewhere in the city. By 1987 the owner of the building was listed as Abdala Gaid. The Hilton hotel chain has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eclecticism In Art
Eclecticism is a kind of mixed style in the fine arts: "the borrowing of a variety of Art movement, styles from different sources and combining them" . Significantly, Eclecticism hardly ever constituted a specific style in art: it is characterized by the fact that it was not a particular style. In general, the term describes the combination in a single work of a variety of influences—mainly of elements from different historical styles in architecture, painting, and the graphic arts, graphic and decorative arts. In music the term used may be either Eclecticism in music, eclecticism or polystylism. In the visual arts The term eclectic was first used by Johann Joachim Winckelmann to characterize the art of the The Carracci, Carracci, who incorporated in their paintings elements from the Renaissance art, Renaissance and Art in ancient Greece#Classical, classical traditions. Indeed, Agostino Carracci, Agostino, Annibale Carracci, Annibale and Lodovico Carracci had tried to combine in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
