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Chapel of Our Lady Fatima

Niemeyer, Oscar
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/121966
Date
1958
Description
Close view of tiles, depicting doves facing down (coming to earth, designed by Athos Bulcão); The first church built in Brasilia. Known as 'Igrejinha', it was consecrated in June 1958. An Oscar Niemeyer work, it has the shape of a nun wimple (cornette). Its exterior walls are lined with tiles designed by Athos Bulcão. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 12/2/2007)
Type of Work
chapel (room or structure); church
Subject
architectural exteriors, New Testament, saints, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Modernist
Rights
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only
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