Painted Houses
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The Casas Pintadas - Painted Houses - are named after a unique set of 16th-century frescoes that adorn the gallery and the attached oratory in the garden. They were classified as a listed building of public interest in 1950. At the time the frescoes were produced, the Casas Pintadas belonged to Dom Francisco da Silveira, third head of horse-breeding of Manuel I and João III and one of the most important poets in the Cancioneiro Geral - General Songbook. The houses were attached to the Palace of the Inquisition in the late 16th century and served as a residence for the judges of the Holy Office. In the 19th century, a theatre called Teatro Eborense - Évora Theatre - was based in the Casas Pintadas as a whole, providing the first stage for public performances in Évora. In the early 1960s, Vasco Maria Eugénio de Almeida, founder of the institution, acquired the property, remodelled it and adapted and donated it to the Society of Jesus in Évora. The Jesuit priests were responsible for the academic affairs of the Instituto Superior Económico e Social de Évora or ISESE - Higher Economic and Social Institute of Évora - which was created in 1964 and housed in the adjacent Palace of the Inquisition, owned by the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation and which houses the Centre for Art and Culture. The garden gallery decorations are one of the most interesting artistic manifestations of the genre existing in Portugal and a unique example of palatial mural painting of the first half of the 16th century. In 2008, the Foundation carried out a project for the enhancement and transformation of the Painted Houses garden, and in 2011 the fresco complex was studied, consolidated and restored, and is now open to the public as part of a series of guided tours.
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Photography: Jerónimo Heitor Coelho
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