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- EditorialPublication . Ribas, Daniel; Coutinho, Maria; Natálio, Carlos; Amorim, João Pedro
- Editorial: v13 n2Publication . Ribas, Daniel; Coutinho, Maria; Natálio, Carlos; Amorim, João PedroThis second issue of 2021 is especially devoted to Arts Education. With a thematic dossier, guest-edited by Catarina S. Martins and Pedro Alves, this edition brings to the front a very urgent and significant problem in education: how to teach art and how to develop and sustain art schools. In a rapidly changing world, these problems must address the digitization of our daily lives, as well as its mechanisms for (art) teaching. Moreover, being a side subject in the world of elementary schools and universities, it is even more important to study and research the ways that arts education can change education as a whole, allowing future citizens to be more aware of their worlds.
- Editorial: v13 n3Publication . Ribas, Daniel; Coutinho, Maria; Natálio, Carlos; Amorim, João PedroThe final issue of 2021 is especially devoted to Art Criticism: a thematic dossier, guest-edited by Nuno Crespo, Luiz Camillo Osorio, and Sabeth Buchmann, with the title “Is There A Place (Still) For Criticism?”.
- Editorial: v13n1Publication . Ribas, Daniel; Coutinho, Maria; Natálio, Carlos; Amorim, João PedroWelcome to the new edition of the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts. In this new number, our first from our 13th year, fosters our editorial view of the journal: a thematic dossier – around sound art – that deepens the research on our focus-areas and CITAR’s Strategic Plan (2020-2023), as well as works on complimentary sections: the Audiovisual Essays and the Reviews (books, in this issue). JSTA maintains its devotion to research in the fields of artistic research, finding new paths and new ways of researching art. It follows also the strategic guidelines for indexation and metadata support.
- Editorial: v14 n1Publication . Ribas, Daniel; Coutinho, Maria; Natálio, Carlos; Amorim, João Pedro
- Material characterization of an 18th-century Roman martyr' reliquary: the case study of Saint Fortunato from Guimarães, PortugalPublication . Palmeirão, Joana; Nunes, Margarida; Manhita, Ana; Coutinho, Maria; Vieira, Eduarda; Ferreira, TeresaThe Roman Catholic Church encouraged the manufacture of life-size reliquaries simulating human bodies to worship and display the bones exhumed from Rome's catacombs (corpi santi) of the allegedly early martyrs of Christianity. Embraced by the Baroque aesthetic, this type of devotional receptacle began to be produced in the late 17th-century and rapidly spread throughout Western Christendom. Portugal was no exception. Between the 18th and the second half of the 19th centuries, dozens of convents, churches, and oratories received the simulated bodies of those saintly heroes. In the last four years, the first author's doctoral research has focused on the historical and scientific study of this typology of reliquaries in Portugal. While establishing a national inventory, the study of historical documentation has shown the Roman origins of the sacred bones, their religious value, and the popular devotions associated with them. As for the scientific research it has highlighted the manufacturing techniques and materials adopted by pious craftsmen. This work aims to present the analytical results on the simulacrum of Saint Fortunato Martyr from Guimarães. This simulacrum was produced during the papacy of Pius VI (1775-1799) as several other simulacra inventoried in Portugal and abroad. A batch of analytical techniques that included Optical Microscopy (OM), Fourier-Transform InfraRed Spectroscopy (FT-IR), High-Performance Liquid Chromatography coupled with Diode Array Detection and Mass Spectrometry (HPLC-DAD-MS), and Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Rays Microanalysis (SEM/EDX) were utilized for morphological evaluation and chemical compositional analysis of fibres, dyes and metal threads. The results will provide new data for the material characterization of 18th-century life-size Roman martyrs' simulacra.
- The early Christian Martyrs Martian, Victory and Leonora: studies on three ceroplastic reliquaries from PortugalPublication . Palmeirão, Joana; Nunes, Margarida; Manhita, Ana; Coutinho, Maria; Vieira, Eduarda; Ferreira, TeresaAfter the rediscovery of the Roman catacombs in 1578, thousands of skeletons attributed to the first martyrs of Christianity were massively exhumed from the subterranean galleries of Rome and displayed in sumptuous reliquaries, simulating the martyrs' bodies for public veneration in churches, convents, and oratories throughout the Christian world. Covered with silk, papier-mâché, plaster, wood or wax, the skeletons from the catacombs were splendidly dressed in ceremonial baroque clothes, representing Roman legionaries or virgins, and were exhibited with the signs of martyrdom inside polychromed and gilded wooden shrines. This type of devotional receptacles, as martyrs' simulacra, began to be produced in the late 17th century and were in use till the mid-19th century. In 2019-2020, an in-situ campaign was carried out to study three ceroplastic martyrs’ simulacra belonging to different Portuguese religious and cultural institutions. This was the first in-depth scientific study performed on simulacra reliquaries made of wax in Portugal. The focus of this project was to identify the materials and the manufacturing techniques adopted by pious craftsmen to unveil their complexity from material, technical and decorative points of view. Sampling of different materials was also carried out. Fibres, dyes, wax, and metal threads were analyzed for morphological and chemical characterization using a batch of analytical techniques that included optical microscopy (OM), attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FT-IR), liquid chromatography coupled with diode-array detection and mass spectrometry (LC/DAD/MS), pyrolysis coupled to gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) and scanning electron microscopy coupled with X-rays microanalysis (SEM/EDS). This work aims to present the analytical results on the simulacrum of saint Martian from the parish Church of saint Sebastian (Óbidos), and the simulacra of saints Victory and Eleonora from the Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy from the Palace of Marquis of Pombal (Oeiras). Despite their probable Roman origin, as many other 18th and 19th century martyrs' simulacra already identified in the north and centre of Portugal, the results obtained support a probable national production.