Funding Information: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia for financial support through PhD Grant PD/BD/52694/2014 (Doctoral Program SUSFOR—Sustainable Forests and Products) and CEEC INST 2018 (DOI: 10.54499/CEECINST/00102/2018/CP1567/CT0038). This work was further supported by research center grant UIDB&DP/04559/2020 (DOI: 10.54499/UIDB/04559/2020; 10.54499/UIDP/04559/2020) awarded to LIBPhys-UNL from FCT/MCTE...
The first TECHNART conference was held in Lisbon in 2007 by the initiative of the Atomic Physics Center from the University of Lisbon, current Laboratory for Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics (LIBPhys). The conference aimed to provide a cultural heritage science forum where the use of analytical techniques in art and cultural heritage were presented and discussed. After five editions...
Goa Cathedral former altarpiece, attributed to Garcia Fernandes and made around 1538, is one of the oldest western pictorial works in India. It is a work of great importance in the establishment of the conquest of Goa by the Portuguese but also for understanding the influence of Portuguese painting overseas. Goa Cathedral former altarpiece is revealed as a crucial study source of Garcia Fernandes' creative proc...
The authors also wish to acknowledge to the HERCULES Lab and José de Figueiredo Lab teams for all scientific collaboration, in particular, Luis Piorro for performing the IRR exams, Maria José Oliveira for XRD analysis and Claudia Pereira at Museums and Conservation library. The authors also wish to thank the National Ancient Art Museum (Lisbon) for granting access to the painting and to Centro de Estudos Histór...
S. Pessanha, M. Manso and V. Antunes also acknowledge FCT for the post-doc grants SFRH/BPD/94234/2013, and SFRH/BPD/103315/2014; In this work, we present the combined use of in situ X ray Fluorescence spectroscopy and Monte Carlo simulation using PENELOPE code for the completely non-invasive determination of gold leaf thickness in artworks using lead white as mordant. The methodology used is based on the detect...
Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia for financial support (Post-doc grant SFRH/BPD/103315/2014) through program QREN-POPH-typology 4.1., co-participated by the Social European Fund (FSE) and MCTES National Fund. Also acknowledge Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos, Doris Santos, Arterestauro, Lda. and Claudia Bento at BC-DGPC and LJF-DGPC.; In this work we address the study of three groups painted by Josefa d' Óbidos...
SFRH/BPD/103315/2014 Vanessa Antunes agradece à Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia o apoio financeiro (bolsa de pós-doutoramento SFRH/BPD/103315/2014) através do programa QREN-POPHtipologia 4.1., co-participada pelo Fundo Social Europeu (FSE) e pelo Fundo Nacional MCTES.; The study of the ground layers in ancient painting covers different aspects of its production stages. One of the phases, which we will expl...