Welcome to ChromAz,

a multidisciplinary project aiming at investigating, contextualising, and disclosing the pigments and their respective recipes used in historic Portuguese tiles.

News & Announcements

Temporary exhibition: A Chromatic Journey through the Portuguese Azulejo

MNAz and VICARTE are pleased to announce the temporary exhibition where visitors can learn about the historical recipes for obtaining the pigments used to decorate azulejos until the 18th century.

The colour palette of 16th-18th century azulejos: A multi-analytical non-invasive study

You can download this paper here (open access).

AzLab#90 is now available!

Click HERE to watch.

Now in a podcast format, AzLab#90 was filmed while we were analysing azulejos at the Academia das Ciências, in Lisbon.

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