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Azuleju, or Azulezhos (port. Azulejo) - ceramic panels are very beautiful paintings on ceramics painted in manual Portuguese artists
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The traditional portuguese azuluju is a painted clay tile, most often a square shape, burned, glazed, 15 cm in size by 15 cm. - These are traditional ceramic panels, glazed tiles for Portugal, which for several centuries are widely used in architecture. Ceramic panels are used for Decoration of facades of houses, as signs and tablets with street names, as well as to compile magnificent panels not only in the interiors of churches and castles,
The word Azulzhush has Arab roots and translates as "small polished pebbles." Traditional Mauritanian craft for the manufacture of ceramic tapes has been brought to the Pyrenean Peninsula in the VIII century since then a number of changes have undergone not only in the design technique, but also in the plot composition.
First, the ceramic panels were the subject of luxury, and allowed a similar decoration in the form of a ceramic panel only representatives of Portuguese nobility, but already in the XVIII century, the mass production of tiles is beginning. Ceramic panels come from colonial Brazil. During the restoration of Lisbon after the destructive earthquake of 1755, the need for ceramic Pano has repeatedly increased, which led to the discovery of many workshops and a large factory for the production of ceramic panels in the tattime. Azulzhush used for facing buildings not only with aesthetic purpose: Ceramic Pano protect well at home from moisture in the winter, and in the summer heat perfectly preserved coolness.
