Casa-Museu Doutor Anastácio Gonçalves
Casa-Museu Doutor Anastácio Gonçalves began life as a residence and atelier built for the painter José Malhoa—when he petitioned Lisbon’s municipal authority in 1904 to commission a home designed by Manuel Joaquim Norte Júnior (1878–1962). The project, dated March 1904, was assigned to constructor Frederico Augusto Ribeiro, working under the name Lar-Oficina Pro-Arte. Its late-eclectic plan drew decorative motifs from Art Nouveau as interpreted through the Parisian school, and the house was altered in November 1904 to add a secondary floor and basement. After Malhoa’s family changed in 1919, the property passed through new owners before becoming the collection-home of ophthalmologist Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves, a noted collector. When Gonçalves died in 1965, he left the house and its artefacts to the State; title was transferred in 1967, and the site opened as a museum in the following decade. …
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