Tag: O Porto de Ramalho Ortigão
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Going to Foz with Ramalho Ortigão
The Foz do Douro that Ramalho Ortigão knew in his childhood, in the 1840s and 1850s, was still a modest fishing village where the practice of sea bathing preserved its …
Ramalho Ortigão: A Defender of Porto's Heritage
Between medieval Porto and the cosmopolitan Porto of the late 19th century unfolded a tension that Ramalho Ortigão witnessed with a simultaneously admiring and critical gaze: the progressive destruction of …
Ramalho Ortigão: Porto as Memory and Art
<p>As we traverse the vast gallery of paintings that Ramalho Ortigão created of nineteenth-century Porto, one conclusion imposes itself: the descriptions of his native city gained in density and beauty …
Ramalho Ortigão: Portraits of Porto Society
<p>Porto society in the second half of the nineteenth century presented itself to Ramalho Ortigão's eyes as a deeply contradictory social body. On one side, the commercial population, affluent; on …
Ramalho Ortigão: the writer of Porto
<p>José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão was born in Porto on 24 November 1836, in a house on Rua de Germalde, in Lapa, and would remain there until 1868, when at thirty-two …