The piece of the month for April chosen by MNSR’s social media followers is a silver llama chasuble embroidered with gold, silk threads and coral beads. Coming from Mitra do Porto and integrated into the Museum’s collection in 1938, the chasuble was acquired by D. Frei José Maria da Fonseca e Évora, bishop of Porto between 1740 and 1752.

The painting signed by Henrique Pousão, piece of the month of May, is an unfinished work. The painter, a state pensioner in Italy, was working on the canvas to send it as proof of completion of the third year of the course he was attending in Capri, when, in the summer of 1883, he returned to Portugal for health reasons, in the hope of a healing that didn’t happen.

Find out more in a session commented by Paula Pote Azeredo, from the MNSR Education Service.