page_title: Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Português: Interior da Casa Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves.
context_page_description: The Museum-Residence of Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves was built as a residence in the art nouveau style, later converted to a museum of art nouveau art and artifacts. It is located in the civil parish of Avenidas Novas, in the municipality and Portuguese capital of Lisbon.
  In the summer of 2019 the Museum is closed for renovations.
context_section_description: The building is situated a corner of a residential block (at the corner of Rua 5 de Outubro and Rua Pinheiro Chagas in the Bairro de Picoas), with walled garden near the Maternidade Dr. Alfredo da Costa.
  The plan is an irregular 2-story design with three wings and a tiled roof. Its exterior design includes various irregular fenestrations on differentiated facades that are duplicated in the lateral and rear faces.
  On the first floor of the central block are four rectangular windows, while the second floor includes one large window on corbels with iron grating. Above the curved window, with three accented voussoirs crowned by a rectangular block and tabulature. Below the window is a platform on six corbels with ironwork. The lateral left wing, which is recessed from the main facade, includes a staircase access to the principal rectangular door. On the second floor of this wing are small windows with stone bows. Corbels support the cornices and protruding eaves. The lateral right wing, which is light protruding, includes a rounded corner window with accented voussoir, supporting the a corbel for the upper window. This second floor includes a curved arched with inset curvilinear window flanked by two columns. This wing is crowned by gable roof with robust frame and accented voussoir. A frieze of azulejo mark the division between the first and second floors on various registers of the facades, consisting of blue and white figures and floral patterns. In the rear some in yellow. The central body is crowned by azulejo frieze with yellow and white PROARTE plaque. On the lateral right facade is a 45 azulejo tiles with the following inscription lined with artistic border: CASA MALHOA / PREMIO VALMOR / 1905 / ARCHITECTO NORTE JUNIOR. This is the unique azulejo plaque or reference that highlights the Prémio Valmor award. Sculptures on the facade are by António Augusto Costa Mota, while all the ironworks were forged by Norte Júnior and executed by the carpenter Vicente Joaquim Esteves, with several masonic elements.
  Inside the building, the furniture and decorative pieces are arrange as a residential home. All the furniture and artefacts are consistent with the 17th-18th century style, punctuated by Portuguese natural wall art and collection of Chinese porcelain. Also, on the second floor, in the area used as the former-atelier, is a window with fabulous window with vegetal decoration in the Arte Nova (consisting of orchids and hummingbirds). Similar to the external decorative elements tha unify the house the internal structures are defined by azuelejo friezes (authored by José António Jorge Pinto, liberal interpretations of José Victor Branco Malhoa and António Ramalho), transposed to fresco paintings by João Eloy Amaral.
caption: The interior of the vintage 16th-17th century residence
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