O presente artigo reúne a informação disponível à data relativamente aos pigmentos utilizados em azulejos portugueses entre o século XVI e o início do século XIX. A grande maioria das publicações centra-se em azulejos do século XVII, seguindo-se o século XVI, e existindo muito pouca informação acerca dos séculos XVIII e XIX. Independentemente da cronologia, a paleta da azulejaria portuguesa usa os óxidos de cob...
This study reports the use of data mining tools in order to examine the influence of the methodology used in chemistry lab classes, on the weight attributed by the students to the lab work on learning and own motivation. The answer frequency analysis was unable to discriminate the opinions expressed by the respondents according to the type of the teaching methodology used in the lab classes. Conversely, the dat...
Many conservation interventions have to consider the filling-gaps operation to remake missing parts of original material and this is still an active topic of debate since it raises technical, aesthetical and ethical issues. A wide variety of materials have been used as fillers, usually in an empirical way, without much knowledge of their characteristics, compatibility and reversibility or even durability issues...
The main objective of the present work is to establish a correlation between the characteristics of the ceramic body of ancient tiles and the workshop where they were made. The work was carried out with tiles from the Museu Nacional do Azulejo collection, but the aim is to study the most important period of the history of tiles in Portugal, the first quarter of the 18th century, the so called Ciclo dos Mestres ...