Following the exhibition Half a Century of Portuguese Art. 1944-2004 , which in 2004 marked the 10th anniversary of the Museu do Chiado - MNAC, the museum collection is once again on display, this time in an exhibition strictly dedicated to the 19th century. The idea behind the exhibition is to look at Portuguese art from this era via eighty four works of art by twenty eight artists, organized in ten specific areas that aim to identify some of the more relevant themes.
Areas
Anunciação and the Dutch landscaping heritage
Genre painting
Five artists in Sintra
The Exiled
The Romantic landscape
The Romantic portrait
Bourgeois realism
The historical image
On the threshold of the modern era
The naturalist narrative
The Grupo do Leão (Lion Group)
The discovery of natural light
Allegories for a Portuguese fin-de siècle
Artists
Simões de Almeida
Alfredo de Andrade
Tomás da Anunciação
António Carneiro
José Ferreira Chaves
Luciano Freire
Alfredo Keil
Artur Loureiro
Miguel Ângelo Lupi
José Malhoa
Visconde de Meneses
Francisco Metrass
Marques de Oliveira
António José Patrício
Leonel Marques Pereira
Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro
Sousa Pinto
Silva Porto
Henrique Pousão
António Ramalho
Francisco Resende
José Veloso Salgado
Francisco dos Santos
João Cristino da Silva
Aurélia de Sousa
José Rodrigues
Soares dos Reis
João Vaz
