This is the most photographed piece of the unpublished exhibition ‘Tesouros Reais’: visitable until August 4 in SantiagoManuel G. Vicente – Facebook Cidade da Cultura
The international exhibition Real treasures. Masterworks of the Terra Sancta Museum came to Santiago last March 22.
Made of 108 unpublished pieces, it is the first time that this exhibition can be seen in Spain. It is available for free on the Gaiás Center Museum until next August 4, from Tuesday to Sunday between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m..
The most popular piece
A gold filigree lamp less than ten centimeters in diameter. This can be described, in a concise way, one of the most photographed pieces and beautiful from the exhibition
According to a statement from the City of Culturethe piece was donated by a Christian family from Palestine to the small chapel of the Gruta do Leite in Belén, “center of pilgrimage and devotion of nations and families of the Christian world.”
The “beautiful fish“it tells us about integration and understanding between cultures. Thus, its elaborate and small gold filigree decoration ‘lembra os os vexetais motifs da ceramic’zellige‘, common in the Maghreb, which we can see for example in the chains and frontispieces of the Koran in the decoration of many buildings of Arab culture.
It was offered to the Franciscan sanctuary in 1890 by Jhalid and Jirieschildren of Yacoub Elias Dabdoub, as can be read from the original text in Arabic that accompanies the piece.
