Love is a castle..."

A framed painting on glass with a pictorial composition allusive to a popular quatrain, that can be read in the middle part of the lower section. Underneath the latter is the ex-libris of Bernardo Marques (1898-1962), a painter, illustrator and graphic artist, friend of António Ferro, who was one of the painters-decorators of the Bureau for National Propaganda (Secretariado de Propaganda Nacional - SPN), the department of the dictatorial regime of Estado Novo charged with the organization of the Portuguese pavilions in several international exhibitions held in the 1930s.

Bernardo Marques also integrated the team of decorators of the pavilions of the Exhibition of the Portuguese World (1940). After its closure, he collaborated, from 1943 onwards, in turning "Popular Life Section" to the Popular Art Museum.

This painting is part of a set of twelve panels, never displayed at the Popular Art Museum. It may have been commissioned for an exhibition on Portuguese folk art held in Bern whilst António Ferro was the ambassador in Switzerland, after his dismissal from SPN, they were deposited in the Museum of Popular Art in 1958, together with other materials that were in the possession of António Ferro.