Fernando Pessoa — Júlio Artur Da Silva Pomar

Fernando Pessoa

Explore Júlio Pomar’s striking black & white portrait of Fernando Pessoa (1988) – a unique azulejo artwork from Lisbon's Metro. Discover Portuguese art!


júlio artur da silva pomar (1926 - 2018)

Discover Júlio Pomar (1926-2018), Portugal's acclaimed painter! Explore his neo-realist & politically engaged art, depicting working life & Portuguese identity. See 'The Mower,' 'Fernando Pessoa' & more.

National Azulejo Museum (Lisbon, Portugal)

Discover the breathtaking azulejo tile collections at Lisbon's National Azulejo Museum, where centuries of Portuguese history unfold within a stunning former convent, inviting you to explore this vibrant ceramic legacy.

Following the first campaign to decorate the underground stations in Lisbon, carried out between the late 1950s and the start of the 1970s, the extension of the network as from 1988 again relied on azulejos as the privileged material to clad and decorate the large wall surfaces at the stations. In this new phase, the Metropolitano invited renowned Portuguese artists to design the full revetment of the stations and not only restricted areas as had been the case with the projects commissioned from Maria Keil (b. 1914 - d. 2012) and Rogério Ribeiro (b. 1930 – d. 2008). The work that Júlio Pomar (b. 1926) designed for Alto dos Moinhos is part of this new concept which we might call a