Carolina Augusta Picaluga Paiva de Andrade – The Girl's Room

The work The Girl's Room introduces Carolina Augusta Picaluga Paiva de Andrade (1835 - 1912), a benefactor of SCML, who after the premature death of her daughter at the age of 21, and in accordance with her husband, decided to leave all her assets to this esteemed institution with the purpose of inscribing her daughter's name in posterity.
During the years of family happiness, her house on São Boaventura Street, in Bairro Alto, was the stage for lively musical evenings, where the piano was played by her daughter Luísa and her father, Jacinto Paiva de Andrade, presented his art collection to the guests. The untimely death of the young girl forever silenced the laughter in the mansion and decades later gave voice to a myth where passion and haunting once again inhabit the “girl's room.”
Already a widow, Carolina founded an educational institution for young girls that she named after her deceased daughter. There, she multiplied the affection and care she had previously used in Luísa's education for several children who had the opportunity to learn and prepare for adult life. The maintenance of this institution, the Luísa Paiva de Andrade Institute, was one of the conditions for donating all her assets to SCML, along with the task of creating an economic neighborhood, a legacy that now lies under the rubble of relentless modernity.
It is about the life of Carolina, her family, and her legacies that the window of this “Girl's Room” opens.

Collection: Benefactors - 10th volume
Coordination: Editorial Center | Cultural Direction

Author: Marta Brites Rosa
Inventory organization and will responsibilities: José Ribeiro Testas: Unit of Benefactions | Real Estate and Heritage Management Direction

Graphic design: Catarina França
Review: Maria Antas de Campos

Photography and image: Archive of the Congregation of the Presentation of Mary; Municipal Archive of Lisbon; National Archive of Torre do Tombo; Municipal Hemeroteca of Lisbon; Audiovisual Unit of SCML; Palace of Correio Velho.

Year of publication: March, 2022
Publisher: Editorial Center of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
ISBN: 9789899021525