Then, an artist spreads each individual glaze color (yellow and green are also common)—made ... with murals made up of more than 20,000 azulejo tiles, all designed and painted by artist Jorge ...

Daniel Rodrigues for The New York Times The azulejos were painted in many colors based in metal oxide — green from copper ... it into a finished azulejo. For antique tiles, recreating the ...

Azulejos, the small, colourful tiles typical of the ... Portuguese – became in turn azulejo, even though the first of these were not blue, but rather yellow, green and brown.

One of Istanbul’s most important landmarks and tourist destinations, it houses 23,000 exquisite Iznik tiles painted with flowers, arabesques, and other patterns in every shade of blue and green.

Key Highlight: The chapel is adorned with not only plenty of azulejos (Portuguese tiles), but also centuries-old oil paintings. One of the most notable aspects of Lisbon's alluring architecture is ...

Marisa Ferreira and Alba Plaza are running out of time. They're on a crusade to catalog and preserve Portugal's historic Azulejo tiles, and they can't keep up with the destruction. In a second ...

This method revolutionized azulejo production, allowing artisans to depict more complex narratives on the tiles. The tiles didn't just remain in Europe—they traveled with explorers, adorning ...

But thanks to the work of [Matthew Wentworth], you might have a new mental image to associate with the smell of melting PLA: decorative Portuguese Azulejo tiles. As difficult as it might be to ...

The tiles, called azulejos, are not only compelling, they are also uniquely Portuguese – which is why, in 1971, the convent became the centrepiece of the Museu Nacional do Azulejo, a museum ...