Catalog Casa Ásia - Francisco Capelo Collection

The Casa-Ásia Museum, Francisco Capelo Collection, originates from a collector's fascination with the East, who over twenty-five years gathered "... with passion and astonishment, around 1300 works of art that encompass a wide variety of media and are associated with various historical periods and different countries of South, East, and Southeast Asia." The collection was created from the outset with the aim of being exhibited to the public, to introduce visitors to religious artifacts, everyday objects, and works of art that circulated among the fourteen countries represented in this collection.
The pieces were created for "internal consumption," that is, without any European interference, which immediately constitutes a truly unprecedented cultural asset. The selection criteria for the pieces were always rarity, integrity, and beauty, and the assembled collection stands alongside prestigious international museums, constituting a new cultural offering in Lisbon.

The opportunity to house the Collection arose in 2017, from the meeting and agreement between the then Provider of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Pedro Santana Lopes, and the collector Francisco Capelo. The chosen location was a seventeenth-century palace in Chiado that, after a restoration that earned it an Honorable Mention from Gulbenkian, opened its doors in April 2024.

The Traveller's Eye Catalog / The Journey of the Gaze presents and illustrates 232 selected works from Francisco Capelo's art collection, as well as several essays by international academics and art historians that present and contextualize the different pieces.

Authors: Francisco Capelo, Alexandra Curvelo, Raquel Henriques da Silva, Hedi Hinzler, Sushma Jansari, Fiona Kerlogue, Regina Krahl, Yannick Laurent, Linda S. McIntosh, George Michell, Dhiravat na Pombejra, David Priesley, Manuel João Ramos, Dawn Rooney, Anne-Valérie Schweyer, Peter D. Sharrock, Donald M. Stadner

ISBN: 9789899021396 (PT) | 9789899021389 (ENG)

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