The second half of the 16th century is a time of transition in the history of tiles in Portugal, marked by the slow decline of the orders from Seville, and the rise of the “new” centres of Lisbon and Talavera de la Reina. In this process, Archbishop D. José de Melo ordered, by the year 1611, a set of blue and white pattern tiles for the decoration of the walls of the Episcopal Palace in Évora that can be attrib...
Abstract: Two Centuripean vases dated back to the 2th century B.C were analyzed using complementary non-invasive and non-destructive portable XRF and Total Reflectance FTIR spectroscopies. The vases are of great importance since they represent a rare expression of the Hellenistic period. The two vases, a “Pyxis” and a “Lebes Gamikos” decorated with figures of different typology, are exhibited in Salinas archaeo...