O Infante Dom Henrique. Um paquete português e os seus ambientes decorativos

• Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Teresa
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/revistaartesdecorativas.2009.3361

Portuguese Companhia Colonial de Navegação was created to answer the needs of an empire that was spread by different continents and separated by oceans. Between the end of the forties and during the fifties major orders were made, the last one of those was Colonial’s Infante Dom Henrique, our object of study. Built as a State ship, she was the last colonial transatlantic. Designed to be a showcase of Portuguese talent, her project undertook several commissions made to the update Portuguese plastic artists, their work was to be incorporated in the ship as a part of it and not only as decorative pieces. When in 1961 Colonial’s Infante Dom Henrique left her Belgium shipbuilder and arrived at Lisbon, the press called her «the national art gallery».