Sacred Art Museum of Funchal
Former bishop's palace holding Flemish Renaissance paintings bought with the island's sugar wealth.
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This guide to the Sacred Art Museum in Funchal follows Simão Gonçalves da Câmara, the sugar-rich captain the island's chroniclers called the Magnificent, and the year fifteen fourteen, when Rome gave Madeira its own bishop and he decided how to say thank you. It touches the Flemish workshops that Madeira's sugar paid for and a painted face you can still find on the wall. Best heard in front of the museum's Flemish triptychs.
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