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- Conservação e salvaguarda dos relicários simulacri corpus sanctaePublication . Palmeirão, Joana; Ferreira, Teresa; Afonso, José Ferrão; Vieira, Eduarda
- Entrevista a Arjun AppaduraiPublication . Ferreira, TeresaAntropólogo cultural, nascido em Mumbai, Índia, Arjun Appadurai é um dos mais relevantes intelectuais públicos da modernidade. Tem dedicado a sua obra a temáticas de interesse tão actual quanto a globalização, o urbanismo, o consumo e a migração, a par da análise aprofundada sobre os media como veículo catalisador de informação identitária e cultural. Conhecido a partir do lançamento de Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996), a análise do fenómeno da fluidez geográfica (populacional) leva-o a cunhar novos termos que servem a descrição da complexidade das redes culturais. O seu trabalho mais recente, Fear of Small Numbers. An Essay on The Geography of Anger (2006), foca as questões da pobreza e da inclusão social, sobretudo nas grandes cidades, tentando explicar, a partir de um ponto de vista [des]localizado, a natureza do terrorismo e da violência mundial. Desde 2004, é professor de Ciências Sociais na New School University de Nova Iorque, tendo anteriormente desempenhado as funções de professor de Estudos Internacionais (Antropologia, Ciência Política e Sociologia) na Universidade de Yale. Entre 2002 e 2004, distinguiu-se como director do Center for Cities and Globalization na mesma universidade. Além das obras já mencionadas, destacam-se ainda: Feelings Are Always Local (2005), o ensaio «Archive and Aspiration» (2004-05) e Space Identity Uncertainty (2006), também referido na entrevista que abaixo se transcreve, e que resulta do encontro com este comissário da conferência organizada pela Fundação Gulbenkian, em Lisboa, sobre o tema «Podemos Viver sem o Outro? As possibilidades e os limites da interculturalidade», Outubro de 2008.
- Excision repair SNPs may influence the extent of DNA damage from radioiodine therapy in lymphocytes from thyroid cancer patientsPublication . Santos, Luís Silva; Gil, Otávia Monteiro; Silva, Susana Nunes; Gomes, Bruna Costa; Ferreira, Teresa; Limbert, Edward; Rueff, José
- Fitas adesivas em suportes celulósicos. Colecção de desenhos do séc. XVIII da Biblioteca Pública de Évora (BPE)Publication . Machado, Ana C.; Vieira, Eduarda; Fuente, Germán F. de la; Rodrigues, Paulo Simões; Ferreira, Teresa
- A forgotten religious heritage: the "simulacri corpus sanctae": study, inventory and safeguarding of portuguese reliquariesPublication . Palmeirão, Joana; Ferreira, Teresa; Afonso, José Ferrão; Vieira, Eduarda
- 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.
- Monitorização de gases poluentes em microclimas de museus: estratégia relevante para a conservação preventivaPublication . Barbosa, Karen; Ferreira, Teresa; Moreira, Patrícia; Vieira, EduardaA exposição a uma atmosfera rica em poluentes voláteis pode colocar em risco as coleções de museus, galerias, bibliotecas ou arquivos. Monitorizar poluentes voláteis em museus é ainda hoje uma prática pouco habitual na maioria das instituições. Compostos orgânicos voláteis (COVs) podem ser libertados de diversas fontes, incluindo os materiais que compõem os próprios artefactos. A existência de poluentes em locais fechados, com inadequada renovação de ar, em simultâneo com valores elevados ou oscilações significativas de temperatura e humidade relativa (HR), pode conduzir à degradação acentuada dos materiais mais reativos. A tendência que se observa nos museus para enclausurar os artefactos em vitrinas ou caixas poderá potenciar a formação de microclimas com elevada concentração de COVs. Pretende-se neste trabalho alertar para o risco dos poluentes gasosos em ambiente museológico e traçar recomendações que incentivem as instituições detentoras de património a implementar um plano de monitorização destes poluentes, associado à prevenção de riscos.
- Reconstituição histórica virtual do retábulo-mor da Igreja do Espírito Santo de Évora: aplicação ao Património da infografia web-basedPublication . Pereira, Catarina; Henriques, Frederico; Carriço, Nuno; Amaral, Vanda; Ferreira, Teresa; Candeias, AntónioAs a part of a multidisciplinary and integrated research, including conservation sciences and history, a proposal is presented for the historical reconstitution and the virtual restoration of the mannerist altarpiece of the main altar at the Espírito Santo Church, in Évora. The collected data is abundant and the scientific information, because of its technicality, is less prone to be easily understood by the general public, thus becoming less accessible. Web-based infographics are explored as privileged forms of disseminating results and raising awareness to Cultural Heritage. The project materializes as an Internet platform where data and a reconstitution proposal are shared in a visual and interactive way. In addition to the digital virtual reconstitution (2D), some tridimensional models (3D) are presented of various elements of the altarpiece, obtained using methods of computer graphics and digital photogrammetry.
- 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.