PHIM - THE HERITAGE AND HISTORY OF THE MARBLE INDUSTRY
26 April, 2023 | Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon > room C135.A and via Zoom | 17.00 [Lisbon Time Zone - UTC+1]
Conference by Carlos Filipe (ARTIS - Art History Institute, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon), as part of the "Programem for the promotion of science and scientific training".
The Heritage and History of the Marble Industry - PHIM project, is born in Vila Viçosa, within the Estremoz Anticlinal, started in 2012, after its authors found that there was no study carried out by the Social and Human Sciences in this area.
An initial strategy and work methodology having been defined, with a view to the structured development of the project, this has been going through several stages and covering several areas of science, in an extended effort to respond to the many open questions and those that, however, have arisen in the course of the investigation.
In this initial phase of the project, which would also serve to verify its great potential, the chronological period chosen for the first investigations was marked out between the second half of the 19th century, with the beginning of the Regeneração, and the year 1986, date of entry of Portugal in the EEC.
The second phase of the PHIM took place between 2017 and 2019, with the their areas of study and the respective research teams. privileging the classical archaeology, industrial archeology (industrial heritage), art history, history of construction, the history of techniques and technologies, geology, cartography, georeferencing and mapping, photographic surveys and the Digital Humanities.
The third phase of the project began in 2019, a few months before the COVID19 pandemic. For this phase, which, despite the severe contingencies was fully implemented, five main areas were defined as objectives: historiography of the marbles of the Anticlinal in the Roman Empire; historiography of the marbles of the Anticlinal in the Middle Ages, between the 12th and 15th centuries; historiography of mine and quarry law; economic historiography for the Modern and Contemporary period and the systematization of a set of interviews gathered for oral history.
In the PHIM project, art history has inevitably gained highlight, as a basic piece, indispensable to the knowledge of the artistic heritage where the Alentejo marbles are present; a heritage that clearly transcend the so-called "marble zone" with well-defined connections across the Portuguese borders, from the peninsular territories, to Italy and the rest of Europe.
The aim of this presentation is to make known a study that has a large team of researchers, the results achieved, the activities and developed, in which the investigations in the context of the history of art, with important unprecedented and surprising results.
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