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Analysis of green pigments: The case of Almada Negreiros maritime station mural...
Valadas, Sara; Vandenabeele, Peter; Gil, Milene; Frade, José Carlos; Vermeersch, Eva; Lycke, Silvia; Dias, Luís; Candeias, António; Costa, MafaldaIn 1949, Almada Negreiros painted at the maritime station of Rocha do Conde de Óbidos, in Lisbon, six monumental mural paintings, which are considered as his highest artistic achievement. On these paintings, he resorted to a bright colourful palette, which needs to be studied to support conservation and preservation of these artworks for future generations. Among the pigments under study within project ALMADA, ...
Science Applied to Modern Mural Painting Studies. Traditional Pigments and Inno...
Gil, Milene; Costa, Mafalda; Valadas, Sara; Cardoso, Ana Margarida; Helvaci, Yigit Zafer; Bhattacharya, Sriradha; Candeias, AntónioThis chapter reports the analytical study carried out on Almada Negreiros’ two working palettes in the public hall of the DN Building in 1939. Both palettes were hidden behind wooden cabinets and discovered in 1991 during conservation works. The first study carried out in 2021 focused on the identification of cadmium pigments. In phase 2, the goal was to extend the research to other colour materials to ascertai...
Colours of the Tijomel ceramic manufacture (1941-1992): characterisation of a s...
Coutinho, Mathilda; Pereira, Silvia; Ruivo, Andreia; Bottura-Scardina, Silvia; Veiga, João Pedro; Geraldes, Catarina; Gil, Milene; Shearman, JoanaColours of the Tijomel ceramic manufacture (1941-1992): characterisation of a set of ceramic colourants and glazed tiles from Decormel Materials Catalogue
Assessment of microbial communities affecting Almada Negreiros’ mural paintings...
Dias, Luís; Gil, Milene; Candeias, António; Caldeira, Ana TeresaThe mural paintings by Almada Negreiros at Lisbon’s Maritime Station of Rocha do Conde de Óbidos, created in 1949, face deterioration due to environmental exposure and past conservation treatments. In 2022, during an on-site analytical campaign aimed at clarifying the artist’ modus operandi and assessing the condition of the paint layers, some areas showed signs of biocolonization and were sampled for analysis....
‘Levantamento documental sobre a vida e obras de pintura mural da artista brasi...
Gil, Milene; Wenzeller, Glaucia; Ferreira, TeesaGilda Gelmini Neuberger (1911-2011), with a career spanning more than 60 years, was one of the rare artists to produce frescoes in Brazil during the 20th century. She was probably also the only Brazilian artist to experiment this technique on unconventional supports, as well as false frescoes with a still ambiguous meaning for the artistic community. In Brazil, the artist was a pupil of Cândido Portinari and Ed...
On mural painting – Almada Negreiros, Spain and dictatorships On mural painting...
Gil, Milene; Pinto dos Santos, Mariana; Palmeirim, SimãoNo âmbito do projeto Almada (Lab HERCULES, PTDC/ART-HIS/1370/2020), este livro reúne trabalhos das áreas da conservação e da história da arte, numa abordagem multidisciplinar, com contribuições predominantemente sobre Almada Negreiros, mas também um importante estudo sobre a pintura mural em Espanha durante o século XX. Os capítulos do livro incluem os resultados das conferências realizadas no início do projeto...
Colours of the Tijomel ceramic manufacture (1941-1992): characterisation of a s...
Coutinho, Mathilda; Pereira, Silvia; Ruivo, Andreia; Bottura-Scardina, Silvia; Veiga, João Pedro; Geraldes, Catarina; Gil, Milene; Shearman, JoanaTijomel was considered one of the most modern ceramic manufacturers in the Iberian Peninsula in the mid-20th century. Located at Caxarias (Ourém, Portugal), this manufacturer produced diverse ceramic-based architectural materials, from common clay bricks to sophisticated modernist azulejos. Recently members of the family of the former Tijomel Manufacture owners retrieved a collection of 33 raw materials, mostly...
An Insight into the Green Deteriorated Paint Layers of the Maritime Station of ...
Gil, Milene; Costa, Mafalda; Dias, Luis; Frade, José Carlos; Vandenabeele, PeterThis study reports the first results of the analysis carried out in 2022 on deteriorated green paint layers from the mural paintings made by Almada Negreiros at the Maritime Station of Alcantara, in Lisbon (Portugal). These murals painted in 1945 are one of the most emblematic painting sets done by the modernist artist and exhibit a bright chromatic palette that displays different states of conservation, with t...
Preliminary Diagnostic Survey of Deteriorated Paint Layers at the Maritime Stat...
Gil, Milene; Valadas, Sara; Cardoso, Inês; Dias, LuisThis paper reports the preliminary diagnostic survey of the six controversial mural paintings painted in 1946–49 at the Maritime Station of Rocha do Conde de Óbidos in Lisbon, considered the artistic epitome of Almada Negreiros mural painting art. Four research questions drove this research: a) What are the main decay phenomena present and their sources? b) Which are the paint layers most affected, and are they...
Modern Mural Paintings. The Planisphere Painting of Almada Negreiros: Technical...
Gil, Milene; Mirão, JoséThis paper presents the results of observations and analysis carried out in the modern mural painting of 54m2, known as Planisphere (or Mapa-mundi), made by Almada Negreiros in 1939 in the city of Lisbon. The painting is Almada’s first monumental painted work at fresco, and it is a striking, colourful composition inspired by early world maps of navigators. The aim is to ascertain how he built up this masterpiec...