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The study of two impressive simulacra at Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Almada, ...
Ferreira, Teresa; Nunes, Margarida; Curto, Ana; Palmeirão, Joana; Manhita, Ana; Olival, Fernanda; Piorro, Luís; Monteiro, Paula; Vieira, EduardaSimulacra, or full-body reliquaries of corpi santi, have largely been overlooked in the discourse of the past century by the Church, the general public, and scholars. This work investigates two noteworthy cases among simulacra—two young individuals, St. Primogenita and St. Theodore—from Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Almada in Portugal. Based on a historical and analytical approach, the study examines the simula...
Exploring a forgotten heritage: the case study of Saint Vincent Martyr's simula...
Palmeirão, Joana; Nunes, Margarida; Manhita, Ana; Curto, Ana; Piorro, Luís; Vieira, Eduarda; Ferreira, TeresaThe simulacrum of Saint Vincent Martyr, one of four corpi santi at the Major Seminary of Coimbra, Portugal, features Roman-origin bones mounted in metallic frameworks and covered with intricate Baroque garments. Enshrined within the urn-altar in Saint Michael's Chapel, its remains were exhumed from the Catacomb of Priscila and brought to Portugal in 1760 by Bishop Count D. Miguel da Anunciação. This study emplo...
Combining in situ elemental and molecular analysis: The Viceroys portraits in O...
Machado, Ana; Valadas, Sara; vandenabeele, Peter; Caldeira, Ana Teresa; Piorro, Luís; Reis, Teresa; Candeias, AntónioThe Vice-Roy's Portraits Gallery hosted at the Old Goa Museum of the Archaeological Survey of India in Goa, India, is a unique panel painting collection, spanning from the 16th till the 18th centuries, and representing the Portuguese Viceroys and Governors who administrated the Portuguese provinces in the coastal region of the Indian Ocean. During the Old Goa Revelations project (a collaborative inter-instituti...
The study of two impressive simulacra at Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Almada, ...
Ferreira, Teresa; Nunes, Margarida; Curto, Ana; Palmeirão, Joana; Manhita, Ana; Olival, Fernanda; Piorro, Luís; Monteiro, Paula; Vieira, EduardaSimulacra, or full-body reliquaries of corpi santi, have largely been overlooked in the discourse of the past century by the Church, the general public, and scholars. This work investigates two noteworthy cases among simulacra—two young individuals, St. Primogenita and St. Theodore—from Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Almada in Portugal. Based on a historical and analytical approach, the study examines the simula...
Exploring a forgotten heritage: the case study of Saint Vincent Martyr’s simula...
Palmeirão, Joana; Nunes, Margarida; Manhita, Ana; Curto, Ana; Piorro, Luís; Vieira, Eduarda; Ferreira, TeresaThe simulacrum of Saint Vincent Martyr, one of four corpi santi at the Major Seminary of Coimbra, Portugal, features Roman-origin bonesmounted in metallic frameworks and covered with intricate Baroque garments. Enshrined within the urn-altar in Saint Michael’s Chapel, its remains were exhumed from the Catacomb of Priscila and brought to Portugal in 1760 by Bishop Count D. Miguel da Anunciação. This study employ...
Em busca do retrato original de Afonso de Albuquerque – novas revelações na Gal...
Reis, Teresa; Valadas, Sara; Machado, Ana; Piorro, Luís; Carriço, Nuno; Cardoso, Ana; Caldeira, Ana Teresa; Pereira, Fernando António BaptistaEste artigo incide na investigação multidisciplinar que permitiu a descoberta do retrato de Afonso de Albuquerque pertencente à Galeria dos Vice-Reis e Governadores do Estado da Índia. Na sequência de uma primeira investigação que confirmou que o famoso retrato exposto no Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga é, afinal, o resultado de sucessivas intervenções sobre uma outra personagem, surgiu a questão acerca da eventu...
Old Goa Revelations: A collaborative project on the shared heritage between Ind...
Reis, Teresa; Caldeira, Teresa; Valadas, Sara; Machado, Ana; Piorro, Luís; Pereira, Fernando António Baptista; Reis, Mónica Esteves; Candeias, AntónioIn this collaborative project, a working group was formed for the integrated study of an Indo-Portuguese shared heritage collection: the Viceroys’ Gallery. A Portuguese team with expertise in heritage science, art history, biotechnology, conservation and museology travelled to Goa (India) in January 2019. Using a mobile unit, the team performed in situ analyses (combining physical imaging tools and micro-analyt...
INSIGHTS ON THE INTEGRATED STUDY PERFORMED IN A SHARED HERITAGE COLLECTION: THE...
Reis, Teresa; Valadas, Sara; Machado, Ana; Piorro, Luís; Cardoso, Ana; Pereira, Fernando António Baptista; Candeias, António; Carriço, NunoPoster de disseminação do projeto Old Goa Revelations no INART 2022
Insights on the second phase of the multidisciplinary study of the Viceroys por...
Reis, Teresa; Valadas, Sara; Machado, Ana; Piorro, Luís; Pereira, Fernando António Baptista; Caldeira, Ana Teresa; Vandenabeele, Peter"Old Goa Revelations" is an international collaborative project dedicated to the research of a shared heritage collection associated to the Portuguese Presence in India (1505 – 1961). The upper halls of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Museum in Old Goa, display the portrait gallery of these Viceroys and Governors who administrated these territories and used to commission their depictions before leaving...
Challenging wax-cast figurine serial production unravelled by multi-analytical ...
Le Gac, Agnès; Madeira, Teresa Isabel; Pereira, Marco Stanojev; Santos, Joana; Piorro, Luís; Dias, Luís; Manso, Marta; Bleton, Jean; Longelin, StéphaneEight complementary techniques were successfully applied to study a pair of very alike eighteenth-century colored wax figurines belonging to the Museu Nacional Machado de Castro, Coimbra (Portugal): examination under visible and ultraviolet light, X-ray radiography (XRR), neutron radiography and tomography (NR and NT), energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF), scanning electron microscopy coupled with energ...