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This 1925 work by Querubim Lapa may also have been chosen for very personal reasons.
Being a work made of glazed, aresta tiles in monochrome green, it cannot fail to remind me of a Sevillian paving
in a Convent in Funchal, Santa Clara, that was made using exactly the same technique.
And it is curious for me to note that a Sevillian tile installed in Portugal very probably inspired
Querubim Lapa to create this very delicate panel, which combines two emblems of a fairly
national character, or at least one that is national and another that is local, from Lisbon.
The title of the work -- The Quay of Columns -- alludes to the two columns opposite
Terreiro do Paço and also to the armillary sphere that relates to the sixteenth-century Sevillian
tiles commissioned by Don Manuel to decorate his palace in Sintra. It is perhaps for these
reasons, inspired by a mixture of aesthetic appreciations and quite personal and highly
subjective circumstances, that this work by Querubim Lapa has always interested me.