Boletim informativo NEPS
Universidade do Minho. Instituto de Ciências Sociais. Núcleo de Estudos de População e Sociedade
2001-11-01
Resultados de pesquisa
Foram encontrados 109 registos.
There are several blurry questions in contemporary Conservation Theory. Remarkable contributions from the past now seem insufficient and a stronger theoretical structure is required. Conservators and restorers rely blindly on concepts taken for granted; such is the example of “original” which is the basis of so many decisions and intervention methodologies. Do we really understand the meaning of “original” and why it is so important to our work? What consequences may derive from the misinterpretation of this concept? This paper proposes an approach to the term “original”, seeking answers in a historic analysis, revisiting a remarkable publication by the British Museum, Fake? The Art of Deception, a catalogue from a 1951 exhibition re-published in 1990. In opposition to “original”, we aim to analyze the relationship Man has had with fak...
The Calvary Panels from the Monastery of St. Andrew of Ancede, in Baião, present a challenge to the field of conservation and restoration. These paintings represent the images of Our Lady and St. John the Evangelist by the Cross on Mount Calvary. Together they constitute a pictorial and sculptural work, since the figure of crucified Christ is a sculpture, placed between the two panels, in a scenic manner. Probably dating from the sixteenth century, in its original composition, and from the nineteenth century in the second composition, aesthetic and historical issues arise inevitably when planning an intervention methodology, given the rarity of specimens from late Gothic painting in Portugal. Facing the impossibility of the preservation and fruition of both compositions, it is necessary to consider the validity of different methodologi...
Our master thesis carried out in the Portuguese Catholic University about conservation and painting techniques came to light from our intention of developing a project in the area of modern and contemporary art. Nowdays, museums consider the documentation and registration of artwork a useful tool towards its conservation and safety. The Manuel Brito painting collection managed by Centro de Arte in Algés is a very important one in the context of Portuguese contemporary art. Our main objective was to give a contribution in order its safeguard considering the possibility of an applied research. Accordingly, we made the collection’s inventory and the evaluation of its conservation condition.
Em 1834 foi criado, em Lisboa, o Depósito das Livrarias dos Extintos Conventos com a missão de recolher e distribuir o espólio bibliográfico e artístico removido dos conventos extintos nessa ocasião. Não obstante a intenção de preservação, durante o transporte e o armazenamento muitas pinturas foram danificadas, algumas das quais de forma severa. Em condições difíceis foram tomadas importantes medidas de conservação por José Feliciano de Castilho, mas depois também foram destinadas à destruição obras consideradas sem valor. Logo nos primeiros tempos o Depósito promoveu o restauro de algumas pinturas, dando início a uma actividade em que depois se envolveu também a Academia de Belas-Artes.
This paper on Conservation of Cultural Heritage explores the use of spatial analysis functions for feature extraction. The study evaluates the performance of neighbourhood functions for the delimitation of a tear in a thangka painting. The pathology area was documented with a non-conventional technique in painting conservation.
O Museu de Arqueologia D. Diogo de Sousa em Braga tem em exposição permanente colecções de natureza inorgânica. Destes materiais, são as ligas metálicas que apresentam maior sensibilidade às condições ambientais. De modo a averiguar quais as condições a que os materiais estiveram aclimatados, entre 2008 e 2011, analisaram-se os dados de Temperatura (T°) e Humidade Relativa (HR). Nos expositores existem materiais diversificados, factor que condiciona a HR existente. Estudou-se a sazonalidade das condições ambientais, concluindo-se uma maior constância dos valores de Temperatura face aos da HR, menos regulares. Os valores registados são medianos, encontrando-se a colecção de metais em bom estado de conservação.
For those not connected to the practice of photography, but that still have interest about it, may they be historians, archives staff or conservators is difficult to understand and appreciate the work of the retoucher from the early XX century. The discoveries made of the potential of retouching negatives by hand were no less then surprising under the light of what can be done today by means of the computer. This subject isn’t there for, just acuriosity for a small group of researchers but a theme with contemporary interest.
This article makes known the research on the internal wall renders of the Church São Luís dos Franceses, with paintings on the stucco imitating marble, the so-called faux marble. They have been executed between 1766 and 1769. The study characterizes the faux marble, performed by the technique Stucco Lustro. In this context, we examined their condition and characterized this covering, using several analytical techniques. The results were discussed in the light of traditional recipes on the production of faux marble paintings in walls.
Among numerous sculptures of Christ, this one of the Santa Clara-a-Velha monastery is unique due to his hidden mysteries. In that sense, his chronological and stylistic context is discussed, and the study made until now his presented. Being the intervention in a initial stage, and the chemical results not yet available, we describe the complexity denotedby the object: the relationship of it actual conservation state with it hectic path, and the uncertainties about authoring and dating. Several aspects are narrated considered previously as to the working out for the best as possible intervention strategy.
