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PINTO (Maria Helena Mendes) & PINTO (Victor Mendes). AS MISERICÓRDIAS do Algarve. Lisboa. 1968. - PINTO (Maria Helena Mendes) & PINTO (Victor Mendes) AS MISERICÓRDIAS do Algarve . Lisboa: Ministério da Saúde e Assistência, Direcção Geral de Assistência, 1968. 392, [2] pp.; il.; 275 mm. First and only edition, published as part of a systematic survey of the artistic heritage of the Holy Houses of Mercy in the Algarve, carried out by the authors over several years of fieldwork. The work documents the collection of sacred art, religious imagery, goldsmithing, vestments, tiles and liturgical furniture preserved in the Misericórdias of the Algarve region, constituting the first exhaustive inventory of this nature for the Algarve. A key source for the history of art and assistance in Southern Portugal, and an essential starting point for any subsequent study of the heritage of the Algarve's Misericórdias (charitable institutions). Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate