Coordinates: 38°42′32″N 9°8′28″W / 38.70889, -9.14111

"Grupo do Leão" (Lion's Group, 1885), painting by Columbano in the Chiado Museum. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro ( Lisbon, 21 November 1857 - Lisbon, 6 November 1929) who is usually referred to as Columbano

The Chiado Museum is an art museum located in Lisbon, in the Chiado neighbourhood. Lisbon (Lisboa liʒˈboɐ is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. Chiado is the name of a square and its surrounding area in the city of Lisbon, in Portugal. It was created in 1911 and reinaugurated, in new installations, in 1994. Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year

The museum covers the period between 1850 and 1950, with works by the foremost Portuguese artists of the period, as well as some foreigners. It holds the best collection of Portuguese painting and sculpture from the Romanticism, Naturalism and Modern periods.

Among the artists represented are António Silva Porto, António Carneiro, António Soares dos Reis, Miguel Ângelo Lupi, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Abel Manta, Dordio Gomes, José de Almada Negreiros, Nadir Afonso, Mário Eloy, Auguste Rodin and many others. António de Carvalho da Silva Porto (1850 &mdash 1893 was a Portuguese naturalist painter António Carneiro ( Amarante, 16 September 1872 - Porto, 31 March 1930) was a Portuguese painter perhaps the most innovative António Soares dos Reis ( Vila Nova de Gaia, 14 October 1847 - Vila Nova de Gaia, 16 February 1889) was a Portuguese Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro ( Lisbon, 21 November 1857 - Lisbon, 6 November 1929) who is usually referred to as Columbano Amadeo de Souza Cardoso ( November 24, 1887 - October 25, 1918) was a Portuguese artist working in the style of the vanguard of his José Sobral de Almada Negreiros ( São Tomé e Príncipe, São Tomé, Mé-Zóchi District, Trindade, Roça Saudade April 7, Nadir Afonso, OSE (1920 Portugal) is a geometric abstractionist painter Mário Eloy ( Lisboa, 15 March 1900 - Rio do Mouro 5 September 1951) was a Portuguese expressionist painter. Auguste Rodin (born François-Auguste-René Rodin; November 12 1840–November 17 1917 was a French artist most famous as a sculptor. The museum also hosts temporary exhibitions.

Since 1994, the Chiado Museum has occupied the old Convent of São Francisco (Saint Francis) in Lisbon, a building of mediaeval origin. The adaptation and renovation of the convent were done by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte.

External links

• Chiado Museum official website