The Casa de Mateus Photographic Archive which has photographs from as early as 1844. This was taken a century later in the opening of the museum.
Omer and I wanted to give life to this table again
Procession of Our Lady of Pity, 80 years before I documented it
Francisco de Albuquerque looking at his mother with devotion, 1950’s
Some of the romantic entanglements which resulted in me
Some of the romantic entanglements which resulted in me
I have long been mesmerized by Saint Marcus Martyr, who was beheaded in the Roman catacombs for being Catholic, was martyred in Rome in 286 (under emperor Diocletian’s rule), and was taken to Mateus on a notoriously adventurous journey in 1705, by my 9th grandfather’s uncle Diogo Alvares Mourão. For 319 years now his body relic has laid at Mateus Chapel, dressed in a gold military fantasia costume. Martyrs were believed to be the connection between the living and the dead. I like to think of him as The Eternal Sitter.
Father and son, Francisco de Albuquerque both died on January 8th, 41 years apart
