Our visual perception is strongly influenced by the anatomical structure of the eye and bylighting conditions. While looking at the painting, we perceive existing colour attributes,using retinal photoreceptors – cones – that serve our vision at higher luminance levels. Lighting, on the other hand, affects our colour discrimination as well as our perception ofthree dimensions of colour. During the retouching pro...
The study of oil painting technique on cellulose supports is still an understudied area that hasnevertheless been achieving a crescent relevance. Being oil painting on rigid and semi-rigidsupports (cardboard) of most common practice, the interest arise mainly around the useof paper as an oil painting support, the materials used and, most of all, the characteristicsthese supports should have to be able to receiv...
The gilded polychrome carved wood in Portugal, (talha dourada) gained its most rich expression during the Baroque epoch with the development of production techniques and the use of of gold leaf. The present paper proposes a complementary and comparative study of two important complexes of talha: one from St. Alberto’s church, integrating the visiting circuit of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisbon), and th...
Esta investigação abordará a atuação do Tribunal de Justiça da União Europeia em defesa dos Direitos Fundamentais. O objetivo principal consiste em averiguar, através de jurisprudência, como o Tribunal de Justiça, do TJUE, se porta frente ao caso de violação dos Direitos Fundamentais dos cidadãos da União Europeia e como objetivo secundário abarcará desde o contexto histórico dos Direito Humanos até a positivaç...
O presente trabalho visa a analisar o desenvolvimento da noção de cidadania europeia em direção a uma cidadania social e a construção de um padrão de jusfundamentalidade em matéria de direitos sociais pelo TJUE. Através do método de estudo de caso e do método analítico, coletaremos a jurisprudência do TJUE quanto ao conteúdo mínimo de direitos fundamentais a serem assegurados aos cidadãos europeus, especificame...
Pedro Alexandrino de Carvalho was one of the most prolific Portuguese artist in the second half of the eighteenth century, emphasizing mainly on production of altar screens and ceiling paintings.The altar screen is a constant presence in the altar piece of the eighteenth century and can cover the oblong chamber in the body of the altar in a fixed or mobile form. Through the work of the Last Supper with the sign...