Artistic and technical Iberian influences on Goan paintings
Goan Christian paintings began to be produced after the conquest of Goa by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1510. During their occupation, Goa became the centre of Portuguese India and many Churches were built here. Evangelization was important to the Portuguese Government and producing paintings was the means to attain this.
In this week's presentation, Vanessa will compare three paintings of the same time period and theme establishing a correlation between the materials used and artistic treatises of the same era, revealing similar procedures and ideological perspectives.
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We highlight the article's publication of the Ph.D. researcher António Cota Fevereiro in the Ninettenth-Century Art Worldwide - a journal of nineteenth-century visual culture, entitled "Technology Meets Art: The Wild & Wessel Lamp Factory in Berlin and the Wedgwood Entrepreneurial Model" [Volume 19 , Issue 2, Autumn 2020]
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"garnished entirely with embossed silver" THE SILVERWORK ON THE STATE BED IN THE NATIONAL PALACE OF SINTRA: ORNAMENT AND ICONOGRAPHY is the title of the text by Teresa Leonor M. Vale, on the third issue of the monograph series "Collections In Focus" dedicated to an extraordinary piece of furniture and jewellery purchased by Parques de Sintra for the National Palace of Sintra: the so-called "Cadaval bed".
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Online conference "Travelling Objects, Travelling People: Art and Artists of Late-Medieval and Renaissance Iberia and Beyond, c. 1400-1550"
On the December 2nd, at 18h, through the Zoom platform, watch the conference dedicated to the "Memory of the 380 Years of the 1st December 1640", live from the Sala dos Actos, at the Ceia Palace. Participation by Ana Leal Faria (CH-FLUL), Major - General João Jorge Botelho Vieira Borges (CPHM) and Doctor Miguel Soromenho (MNAA), and moderation by Professor Fernanda Olival (CIDEHUS - UÉ).
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Conference held in portuguese
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