2023 kicks off with a homage to one of the most influential Portuguese art historians of the last decades, Vítor Serrão, whom Az - Azulejo Research Network had the honour of having as coordinator for several years.

AzLab#83 will look at azulejos in a global context. Our guest, Patricia Blessing, from the University of Princeton, will focus on Ottoman items to analyse the relationship between Chinese porcelain and the use of tiles in Islamic architecture. Be sure to join us!

During the construction of a hotel in the former location of the Sommer Warehouses, on Cais de Santarém Street, in Lisbon, the excavations unearthed various elements that offer a unique picture of the city's stratification between the Iron Age and the first half of the 20th century. The archaeological works, carried out during the 2000s and 2010s, led to the identification of a number of remains of great importance for the city's history -  among which tile sets from different periods, which will be presented in detail on this AzLab by the archaeologists Nuno Neto and Paulo Rebelo, from Neoépica.

2023 kicks off with a homage to one of the most influential Portuguese art historians of the last decades, Vítor Serrão, whom Az - Azulejo Research Network had the honour of having as coordinator for several years.

On AzLab#80 we travel to the Arabic peninsula to admire the Omani mihrabs decorated with Chinese porcelain. Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, from the University of Liverpool, explores the nature of the decorative schemes, the close ties between the Omani and the burgeoning porcelain trade across the Indian Ocean, as well as the new motifs it gave rise to.