Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries

This exhibition brings together approximately 250 objects reflecting the unprecedented cross-cultural dialogue that followed the establishment of Portugal's world trading network—in Africa, India, China, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Brazil—in the 16th and 17th centuries. The paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, maps, early books, and other objects provide a rich image of a new world during its formation. In addition, objects focusing on Africa are on view in a related exhibition with the same title at the National Museum of African Art.

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