About the museum
The story of the National Museum of Ancient Art
The National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon opened in 1884 in the Alvor Palace, overlooking the Tagus river. It holds Portugal's national collection of old master art.
Its treasures include the Panels of Saint Vincent attributed to Nuno Gonçalves, Bosch's Temptation of Saint Anthony, and Dürer and Holbein.
The collection
Portugal's national museum of old master art holds paintings, sculpture, gold and silver, ceramics and furniture from the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century, including treasures from Portugal's overseas contacts in Africa and Asia.
Its paintings include the Panels of Saint Vincent, a group portrait of fifteenth-century Portuguese society, Bosch's Temptation of Saint Anthony, Dürer's Saint Jerome and Holbein the Elder's Fountain of Life. Japanese namban screens show the arrival of the Portuguese in Japan.
At ArtLogia you can order 69 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 41 artists led by Nuno Gonçalves, Domingos Sequeira and Cristóvão de Figueiredo.
- paintings to order
- 69
- artists
- 41
- art movements
- 11
- years covered
- 1344–1868
The building
The museum occupies the seventeenth-century Alvor Palace and an extension built in the 1940s on the site of a convent, overlooking the Tagus from the Janelas Verdes district.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
The garden café looks out over the river and the port of Lisbon.
