Encompassing the Globe

Today we went to see a wonderful exhibition called «Encompassing the Globe» at the Antique Arts Museum of Lisbon.

It´s a show of objects, paintings and tapestries from a period when Portugal was at the epicenter of the new economic, political and cultural structures in the world at large.

The New York Times posted an article that started like this:

WASHINGTON, 2007, June 22
A little-known fact: A version of the Internet was invented in Portugal 500 years ago by a bunch of sailors with names like Pedro, Vasco and Bartolomeu. The technology was crude. Links were unstable. Response time was glacial. (A message sent on their network might take a year to land.)

more at sculpture
and a photo a day