The São Roque Museum, also called the São Roque Museum of Sacred Art, is attached to the church of São Roque in Lisbon and has a collection of sacred art from the collection of the Holy House of Mercy of Lisbon.
The museum was inaugurated with a public presentation of the Santa Casa artistic collection, which took place in 1898, the year in which the arrival of Vasco da Gama in India and the 400th anniversary of the institution was celebrated in Lisbon. On this occasion only the costumes and vestments of the treasury of the Chapel of St. John the Baptist were commissioned by King John V to Rome for the Church of St. Roch.
Later, the Holy House prepares a permanent exhibition not only of the treasury of the chapel, but also of the most important works, of the artistic heritage of the institution. For this, some rooms of the old professed house of the Company of Jesus were chosen, dependencies that, annexed to the temple, were from 1783 the place where the National Lottery was extracted. This was the aspect of the São Roque Museum at the time of its first opening in 1905.
It was the object of successive reforms until the 1960s, when it began a process of remodeling and enhancement of its collections, resulting in the reopening of the public in 1968.
In 1992 remodeling works were carried out so that it could house even more pieces, among which are examples of painting, sculpture and goldsmithing from the middle of the sixteenth century to 1768, a period that corresponds to the permanence of the Jesuits in the church and the old Casa Professa de São Roque.
The Museu de São Roque first opened to the public in 1905, located in the former Professed House of the Society of Jesus, a religious house adjoining the Church of São Roque. This church had been founded in the second half of the 16th century, as the first church of the Society of Jesus in Portugal. It kept the original name of the former shrine of São Roque, which existed in the same location. Its interior show a great and rich variety of artworks, namely azulejos, (coloured tiles), paintings, sculptures, inlaid marbles, gilt woodworks, reliquaries, etc, all of which belong nowadays to Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa [The Holy House of Mercy works]. In this church stands out the famous side Chapel of St. John the Baptist, commissioned by King John V of Portugal to Italian artists, and built in Rome between 1744 and 1747, which represents in Portugal a unique example of the late-roman baroque art.
The museum exhibits one of the most important collections of religious art in Portugal, originating from the Church of São Roque as well as from the Professed House of the Society of Jesus. This artistic heritage was donated to the Misericórdia de Lisboa by D. José I, in 1768, after the expulsion of the Society of Jesus from the national territory. Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa is a secular institution of social and philanthropic work with over 500 years helping the city population through a wide range of social and health services.
Highly prized collections of artworks as well as liturgical vestments make up the art treasure of Museu de São Roque, worth visiting next to the church.
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