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Cataloguing Portuguese tile patterns

ARTIS-IHA funding
[ARTIS-IHA - Main Research Unit]

Description:
This project aims to catalogue the Portuguese tile patterns since the 15th century until now, offering to the scientific community a cataloging tool, based on a informatics data system, available online.

For this propose, a specific module was developped within the inventory system used by Az - InPatrimonium -, which is articulated with the module for tiles inventory in situ. This approach allows us to catalogue patterns and identify the locations where they were applied, in a knowledge systematization that may bring, in the future, important contributions and possibilities of analyses on manufacturing chronologies and application, colors, authors, etc.

The main aims are:

Cataloging the tile patterns in Portugal, either these were produced in Portugal or abroad;
To built a thesaurus on pattern tiles, to be available online and work as base for other inventories of tile heritage that may be develop in the future by institutions or researchers, in Portugal or abroad;
To create a tool that allows to identify automatically the patterns;
To link the thesaurus to the tiles inventory and to relate the patterns with all the locations where they were applied;
To motivate studies and research work in tile and tile pattern's field of knowledge.

Funding:

ARTIS-IHA

Start date: 2010

Main Research Unit:
ARTIS - Instituto de História da Arte, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

Co-Promoter:

Azulejo National Museum

Other partnerships:
Mapping our tiles
Os Azulejos do Porto (Azulejos from Oporto)

Research Team:

Az - Rede de Investigação em Azulejo:

Rosário Salema de Carvalho

Ana Almeida

Ana Venâncio (2014)

Inês Leitão

Isabel Pires (until 2013)

Lúcia Marinho (until 2014)