Chapel of Souls
Neoclassical chapel wrapped in over fifteen thousand blue-and-white azulejo tiles depicting saintly death and martyrdom.
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This guide to the Chapel of Souls in Porto traces how a plain white chapel on a busy shopping street was wrapped, starting in 1929, in more than fifteen thousand hand-painted azulejo tiles by artist Eduardo Leite, fired in a Lisbon workshop and styled after eighteenth-century originals. It looks closely at what those tiles actually depict, scenes of saintly death and martyrdom, including the chapel's own namesake, Saint Catherine. Stand back from the facade to take in the whole scene before you look at any single panel.
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