Portuguese Engineering

Stamps

Souvenir sheet

First Day Cover with stamps   (I)

First Day Cover with stamps (II)

Brochure

    Over time, Engineering and Engineers have played a role of stimulating progress, of projects leading to innovation, from engines to the development of society and the economy, breaking many barriers, many of which were natural ones, in order to advance humanity.

They are not the only agents of change, but they are elements in the first line of this movement. Earlier on, when Engineering had not yet been formally and conceptually constituted as such, the survival and conquest of Man had already depended on clever devices.

As time went by, it was mainly with the 1st Industrial Revolution that the indispensability of a class that would bring large-scale production, communications, machinery and equipment became evident, and from then on, Engineering would multiply activities and specialties of its art without ever stopping until the present day.

The issue of these stamps represent the engineering specialties formally structured in the Order of Engineers and those that historically bring together the greater representativeness in the country, both in terms of professionals, and in terms of interventions and achievements in Society.

What better model to represent Engineering if not the ways in which it is expressed?

The essence of Engineering and also its most fundamental mission is to put nature at the disposal of Man in an appropriate and safe manner for it to be usable and provide well-being.

This concept has evolved and is now present in the most complex and technologically advanced areas, in telecommunications, IT, information systems, nanotechnology, bioengineering, energy production and efficiency, the sustainable management of the natural and built environments, and the complex structures of networks or of works, many of which are true “masterpieces”.

Portuguese Engineering has developed in Portugal and abroad with activities and works of recognized value, many of which have collected international awards.

It is naturally an area that has what it takes to remain, for working, studying, analyzing, designing, and conceiving and for giving its best contribution in the construction of the country and of society.

Technical Details

Date of Issue: 19 October 2012

Values: stamps of 0,32€, 0,47€, 0,57€, 0,68€, 0,80€ and 1,800€

Special sheet: with two sets

Designer: João Machado

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Credits:

Printer: Joh. Enschedé

Process: Offset 4 Colors

Size: 80 x 30,6 mm

Size special sheet: 110 x 185 mm

Perforation: Cross of Christ 13 x 13

Paper: FSC 110 g./m2

Watermark:

Sheet: with 50 stamps

Merry Christmas

ALAND - Postcard from Mariehamn, Aland to Braga, Portugal

 

Official Aland Post maximum postcard sent on December 2012.

1st Hall Of Humorists – Centenary

Stamps

Miniature sheet

First Day Cover

Stamps brochure

On May 9th, 1912, the 1st Hall of Portuguese Humorists was inaugurated, an important moment in the history of nineteenth-century Portuguese art and culture.

The exhibition was held in Chiado, Lisbon, where the Grémio Literário (Literary Guild) opened its doors to welcome the works of twenty-eight artists.

Surprisingly, it was visited by Manuel de Arriaga, president of the young Republic, echoing in the press of the time, who tried to purchase a work from each of the exhibitors.

The event resulted from the efforts of the Society of Portuguese Humorists, formed a year ago under the flagship presidency of Manuel Gustavo Bordalo Pinheiro, son and successor of the noted artist Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, already deceased, honoured with eighteen of his lithographs at the entrance of the Hall.

Two other artists were also posthumously remembered: Francisco Teixeira and the more prominent Celso Herminio.

But the presence of the master Rafael Bordalo fulfilled another sense, serving as “a deposit” to this entire generation of “Bordalianos” and especially to the new modernist humorists.

Some and others presented more than three hundred works, including engravings, sketches, covers for publications, decorative friezes, statues, relief plaques and even masks, accumulated in three rooms of the Guild and listed in a modest edited catalogue.

Among the heirs of the “Bordaliano” taste, the son Manuel Gustavo, Alonso (pen name of Joaquim Guilherme Santos Silva) stood out, as did Francisco Valença, which prolonged the nineteenth-century trait.

But it was the work of the young ones that marked this event in the Portuguese art.

The proposal of the young artists sought to counter the exhausted subject of politics, an accurate social commentary, accomplished through a synthetical stroke of figure and context, more current.

There was a host of new ones, like Américo Amarelhe, cartoonist of the theatrical world, of the military milieu, such as the official Menezes Ferreira, the urban joke by Sanches de Castro, the kermesse figures of the emigrated Emmerico Nunes (sent from Munich) and the popular laughter of Stuart Carvalhais (in Paris).

Thus, the elegance of Jorge Barradas design, the boulevard figurines in clay, from Canto da Maia, were distinguished by the critics and most important, in equal footing, the exemplary modern artists Cristiano Cruz and Almada Negreiros.

Great absences were noted, such as Leal da Camara’s (with an exhibition being held at the same time in the capital), Luis Filipe and Correia Dias.

After one hundred years, to mark this event, twelve artists were selected, representing the two streams of artistic confrontation and, for the first time, we tried to find the pieces exhibited at the time, to serve as an illustration for the stamp dedicated to each author.

Although mostly successful, it was mandatory to open an exception for Emmerico (the only one to exceed the chronological limit of 1912), Manuel Gustavo, Celso and Barradas due to unsuccess in the search.

The humour now achieved, mainly through details of the works of the artists, did justice to the effort reflected in the Hall. Despite the enormous success, society’s taste has not changed, continuing to please the “Bordaliano” style.

Modernity, understood only by some, would later reach the public, cultural and mentally unprepared...

Technical Details

Date of Issue: 16 October 2012

Values: stamps of 0,32€, 0,47€, 0,68€ and 0,80€

Special sheet: with two sets

Designer: Atelier B2

Photos:

Credits:

Ackowledgements:

Printer: Joh. Enschedé

Process: Offset 4 Colors

Size: 30,6 x 40,0 mm

Size special sheet: 110 x 185 mm

Perforation: Cross of Christ 13 x 13

Paper: FSC 110 g./m2

Watermark:

Sheet: with 50 stamps

FADO - Heritage Of Humanity

Stamps

First Day Cover

Corporative stamp

Brochure

In the year that celebrates the consecration of Fado as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, this philatelic issue pays tribute to this Living Tradition that we have shared with the world through the art of different generations of creators.

Heir of a temporal dimension of approximately two hundred years, Fado today continues to grow and be recreated in full 21st Century.

A living tradition, with deep roots and structural presence in the history of the country, Fado was, since its origins in the nineteenth century, able to integrate diversified poetic, musical, cultural and technological influences, drawing a path of gradual consecration, along which it crossed all borders to which it was initially subject.

It conquered, from the second half of the twentieth century, the area of scholar and classical poetry, gained international visibility and became a constant presence in the most prestigious concert halls in the world, openly dialogues with other musical genres today - in circuits of the so-called international World Music - and its most emblematic artists have become true icons of the performing arts in Portugal.

At the same time, it continues to be cultivated in the social circles of its origin, in small rooms such as in gatherings in associations and recreational groups all over the country and throughout the diaspora of Portuguese emigration.

In Fado, we always recognize and rediscover ourselves. Here we forge the meeting between time, music and words.

In this unique moment, we unveil our ability to be who we are and be, at the same time, permanently open to the world. Fado, like few other musical styles, positively derives from its interpreters.

In Fado, behind a deceptive simplicity, we find the technical and expressive complexity that is characteristic of the great vocal, popular or scholar traditions.

Fado singers and guitarists recreate an absolutely unique fate in each interpretation, where the basic melody is successively colourful and ornamented through the voice and the expressive tools of each artist.

In this philatelic edition we pay tribute to several generations of creators, six individuals with six very different styles: Vicente da Câmara, Argentina Santos, Rodrigo, Maria da Fé, Camané and Mariza.

Six paths that are completely different from each other, both in the contexts of creation - essentially tied to a time and space of their own - and in terms of their audience or media projection.

Each one equipped with an absolutely unique artistic personality.

And in all of them we find the mythical heritage of the great masters and the ability to carry this legacy to future generations, giving it a powerful interpretative originality of a profound emotional weight.

In all of them we recognize the alchemy capable of transmuting a unique musical expression into a heritage that is both from Lisbon, and national and universal.

Technical Details

Date of Issue: 11 October 2012

Values: stamps of 0,32€, 0,47€, 0,57€, 0,68€, 0,80€ and 1,00€ additional ‘corporate stamp’ of 1,00€

Designer: Elisabete Fonseca / Atelier AcácioSantos

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Credits: 0,32€ - Vicente da Câmara; 0,47€ - Argentina Santos; 0,57€ - Maria da Fé; 0,68€ - Rodrigo; 0,80€ - Camané; 1,00€ - Mariza; 1,00€ - w/o title Portuguese guitar.

Brochure cover: Viela de Lisboa, Rui Pimentel 1998 col. Museu do Fado

Ackowledgements: Argentina Santos, Camané, Maria da Fé, Mariza, Rodrigo e Vicente da Câmara; Casa do Artista, Everything is New, Vachier & Associados, Museu do Fado

Printer: Joh. Enschedé

Process: Offset 4 Colors

Size: 30,6 x 40,0 mm

Perforation: Cross of Christ 13 x 13

Paper: 110 g./m2

Watermark:

Sheet: with 50 stamps (except corporate stamp that is in sheets of 10 stamps)