sexta-feira, 28 de setembro de 2007

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Métodos laboratoriais de exame de pinturas

A ARP - Associação Profissional de Conservadores-Restauradores de Portugal promove um curso sobre os métodos laboratoriais de exame de pinturas.

O curso pretende apresentar os fundamentos dos métodos de exame mais usados no estudo de pinturas – alguns dos quais facilmente acessíveis aos conservadores –, discutir o tipo de informações proporcionadas pelos mesmos e as suas limitações. Trata-se de métodos que podem ser úteis quer para o estudo das obras, quer para o esclarecimento de aspectos relacionados com o estado de conservação. Sempre que possível, os tópicos serão abordados a partir da discussão de casos reais. Entre estes poderão ser usados casos apresentados pelos formandos.

Com um total de 12 horas, decorrerá nos próximos dias 15 e 16 de Outubro no Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, em Lisboa.

Mais informações aqui.

quinta-feira, 27 de setembro de 2007

Manufactura de lacas para pintura

Estão disponíveis online dois livros sobre a manufactura de lacas para pintura, isto é, materiais obtidos pela deposição de um corante (orgânico) numa carga (inorgânica).

Os livros são os seguintes:

  • Francis Jennison, The Manufacture of Lake Pigments from Artificial Colours, 1920, aqui
  • B. Cronshaw, The Manufacture of Lakes and Precipitated Pigments, aqui

quarta-feira, 26 de setembro de 2007

Os tratados de pintura publicados por Mrs. Merrifield: 2

A obra de Mary Merrifield intitulada Original Treatises, Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts of Painting, publicada pela primeira vez em 1849, ainda hoje é de consulta indispensável. Dos dois volumes, já aqui tinha dado conta de o primeiro estar disponível online.

Neste momento, o segundo volume também já está acessível aqui.

O primeiro volume, além de estar disponível no endereço já indicado, está também disponível, através de diferentes exemplares, aqui e aqui.

segunda-feira, 24 de setembro de 2007

Livros da Winsor & Newton: 2

Diversos livros sobre técnicas artísticas publicadas pela firma Winsor & Newton durante o século XIX estão disponíveis integralmente online. Alguns desses livros já foram referidos aqui. Seguem mais alguns:

  • The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colours, 8th ed., 1853, aqui
  • The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colours, 14th ed., 1859, aqui
  • Aaron Penley, A System of Water-Colour Painting, 1850, aqui
  • Mrs. Merrifield, Pratical Directions for Portrait Painting in Water-Colours, 2nd ed., 1851, aqui
  • Thomas Rowbotham, Thomas L. Rowbotham, Jr., The Art of Landscape Painting in Water Colours, 1850, aqui
  • W. Winsor, H. C. Newton, Practice of Fresco Painting, 1843, aqui

segunda-feira, 17 de setembro de 2007

Reestruturação do website A Ciência e a Arte

Após seis anos sem qualquer actualização, o site A Ciência e a Arte, também conhecido como Ciarte, foi completamente reestrurado, quer em forma, quer em conteúdo.

É muito provável que, a partir de agora, passe novamente a ser periodicamente actualizado.

Journal of Cultural Heritage, vol. 8, n.º 3, 2007

Está em distribuição o número 3 do corrente ano do Journal of Cultural Heritage. De destacar o estudo de um manuscrito iluminado português.

Índice:

  • Pierre Chassagne, Elias Bou-Said, Ario Ceccotti, Jean-Francois Jullien, Marco Togni, The contribution of numerical simulation for the diagnosis of the conservation of art objects: Application to Antonio Santucci's armillary sphere of the 16th century, pp. 215-222
  • Barbara Lubelli, Rob P.J. van Hees, Effectiveness of crystallization inhibitors in preventing salt damage in building materials, pp. 223-234
  • Mauro Bacci, Amerigo Corallini, Andrea Orlando, Marcello Picollo, Bruno Radicati, The ancient stained windows by Nicolo di Pietro Gerini in Florence. A novel diagnostic tool for non-invasive in situ diagnosis, pp. 235-241
  • Philippe Colomban, Aurelie Tournie, On-site Raman identification and dating of ancient/modern stained glasses at the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, pp. 242-256
  • Frank Jakobus Ruhli, Thomas Boni, Juan Perlo, Federico Casanova, Maria Baias, Eduard Egarter, Bernhard Blumich, Non-invasive spatial tissue discrimination in ancient mummies and bones in situ by portable nuclear magnetic resonance, pp. 257-263
  • Laszlo Bencs, Zoya Spolnik, Dionne Limpens-Neilen, Henk L. Schellen, Bernhard A.H.G. Jutte, Rene Van Grieken, Comparison of hot-air and low-radiant pew heating systems on the distribution and transport of gaseous air pollutants in the mountain church of Rocca Pietore from artwork conservation points of view, pp. 264-271
  • Rosa Maria Cavalli, Francesca Colosi, Angelo Palombo, Stefano Pignatti, Maurizio Poscolieri, Remote hyperspectral imagery as a support to archaeological prospection, pp. 272-283
  • Fulvio Baudo, Gian Antonio Mazzocchin, Warren Cairns, A pilgrim's ampulla from San Giacomo in Paludo (Venice). Provenance hypothesis through lead isotope ratio analysis, pp. 284-288
  • Sara Bianchin, Umberto Casellato, Monica Favaro, Pietro Alessandro Vigato, Painting technique and state of conservation of wall paintings at Qusayr Amra, Amman - Jordan, pp. 289-293
  • Ioannis Karapanagiotis, Lemonia Valianou, Sister Daniilia, Yannis Chryssoulakis, Organic dyes in Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons from Chalkidiki (Greece), pp. 294-298
  • Laura Moura, Maria Joao Melo, Conceicao Casanova, Ana Claro, A study on Portuguese manuscript illumination: The Charter of Vila Flor (Flower town), 1512, pp. 299-306
  • Alessandro Zucchiatti, Lucia Canonica, Paolo Prati, Aurora Cagnana, Stefano Roascio, Aurelio Climent Font, PIXE analysis of V-XVI century glasses from the archaeological site of San Martino di Ovaro (Italy), pp. 307-314
  • Lorenzo Lazzarini, Ernesto Borrelli, Mohamed Bouabdelli, Fabrizio Antonelli, Insight into the conservation problems of the stone building "Bab Agnaou", a XII cent. monumental gate in Marrakech (Morocco), pp. 315-322
  • Francesca Ospitali, Andrea Rattazzi, Maria Perla Colombini, Alessia Andreotti, Gianfranco di Lonardo, XVI century wall paintings in the "Messer Filippo" cell of the tower of Spilamberto: Microanalyses and monitoring, pp. 323-327

terça-feira, 11 de setembro de 2007

Materiais e métodos de pintura de Lucas Cranach, o Velho

Acabou de ser publicado:

Gunnar Heydenreich, Lucas Cranach the Elder. Painting materials, techniques and workshop practice, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2007.

Índice

  • Preface
  • Biography of Lucas Cranach the Elder
  • Cranach's practice of painting in the judgement of history
    • Sixteenth-century commentators
    • Seventeenth- to nineteenth-century commentators and biographers
    • Twentieth-century research and analysis
  • Panel painting
    • The wooden support
    • Frames
    • The preparatory layers: ground, isolation and imprimatura
    • Practices of underdrawing
    • Applications of gold, silver and paper
    • Paint, palette and brushes
    • Techniques of painting
    • Painting the reverse side, presentation and transport
  • Canvas painting
    • Documentary evidence and surviving canvases
    • Subjects and function
    • The linen: origin, formats and qualities
    • Preparation of the linen and painting techniques
    • Presentation and evaluation
  • Painting on other supports
    • Parchment
    • Paper
    • Metal
    • Mural painting and architectural decoration
  • Workshop organisation
    • Contracts, commissions and marketing
    • Studios
    • Partnership and workshop members
    • Artistic co-operation and exchange in panel painting
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Measurement and coinage
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Photographic acknowledgements
  • Appendices
    • Investigated paintings
    • Selected primary documents on materials, techniques and workshop organisation
  • Index

Mestrado em Química Aplicada ao Património Cultural

Está aberta a 2.ª fase das candidaturas para o Mestrado em Química Aplicada ao Património Cultural, do Departamento de Química e Bioquímica da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa em colaboração com o Departamento de Arte, Conservação e Restauro da Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar.

Destina-se a licenciados na área na área da Química e licenciados na área da Conservação e Restauro.

Trata-se da 5.ª edição, agora com novo formato.

A 2.ª fase de candidaturas decorre entre 10 a 14 de Setembro.

Mais informações em http://www.dqb.fc.ul.pt/2ciclo/pcultural/.

sexta-feira, 7 de setembro de 2007

Os trabalhos dos pintores: 99

Frans van Mieris, Pictura, 1661.

quinta-feira, 6 de setembro de 2007

Os trabalhos dos pintores: 98

François Boucher, Painter in his Studio, 1753.

quarta-feira, 5 de setembro de 2007

Dendrocronologia com base nos carvalhos europeus

K. Haneca, Tree-ring analyses of European oak: implementation and relevance in (pre-)historical research in Flanders, Tese de doutoramento, University Ghent, 2005.

A tese está livremente disponível aqui.

Resumo:

Throughout human history, forests and woodlands in Western Europe experienced a high anthropogenic influence. In densely populated areas forests were cleared and converted to arable land or were exploited for the supply of firewood and construction timber. In Flanders, it is estimated that the forest cover by the end of the 13th century was even lower than in the 19th century. To date, several assortments of timber, available on the local wood market during the Roman era and the Middle Ages, have become part of our cultural heritage. Archaeological remains, historical buildings, panel paintings and religious sculptures are only a few examples of constructions and objects that were created by processing wood. Especially European oak (Quercus robur L. and Q. petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) was highly esteemed by craftsmen. Tree-ring series of oak have the characteristic that they tend to crossdate. In other words, ring-width series display a certain element of synchronicity between remote sites. This feature allows to use dendrochronology, i.e. the scientific study of tree-ring patterns, as a dating tool. However, in Flanders tree-ring dating has seldom been applied and has often led to inconclusive results. Especially archaeological oak timbers or wood from historical buildings is often characterized by short (less than 50 years) and variable growth patterns. Therefore, it was assessed and demonstrated that such series have a potential for dating purposes and chronology building. It is believed that the high anthropogenic pressure on the original forest cover has stimulated the implementation of short rotation systems. Past forest management interventions and forest stand structure development are recorded in the growth patterns and the wood anatomical structure of archaeological and subfossil wood. By comparing them with growth patterns of contemporary trees from stands with well-known stand structure and management history it was noticed that the same patterns are encountered. Consequently, it is now possible to distinguish wood specimens that originate from, for instance, a coppice stand or a high forest by scrutinizing their growth patterns. Moreover, close observation of the wood anatomy, for instance, the size and distribution of earlywood vessels, provides an image of the variability in past hydrological conditions. Tree-ring series from wooden sculptures and panel paintings from 15th-16th century display a completely different nature. Since local timber sources mostly provided small sized and fast grown timber, craftsmen started to look for high-quality oak. Such assortments became available due to the establishment of an important timber trade. Especially oak timber from the Baltic region was imported. By studying the growth patterns on historical art objects it becomes clear that medieval woodworkers were well aware of the intrinsic variability and technological properties of the imported oak timber. Moreover, analysis of extensive datasets of tree-ring series from historical art objects provides more insights and information on the original timber source, wood processing activities and the creative process. It is obvious that dendrochronology has become more than a dating tool in (pre-) historical studies. This work demonstrates that it is highly valid to approach Flanders’ precious cultural heritage, created out of wood, from a multidisciplinary point-of-view, where archaeology, art-history, wood technology and biology should play an important and valuable role.

terça-feira, 4 de setembro de 2007

Metodologia para a Conservação de Retábulos de Madeira Policromada

Françoise Descamps (ed.), Metodología para la Conservación de Retablos de Madera Policromada, Sevilla - Los Angeles, Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico - The Getty Conservation Institute, 2002.

O livro, correspondente às comunicações apresentadas num encontro, está integralmente disponível online. Em castelhano está aqui; em inglês está aqui.

Índice

  • Jaime Cama Villafranca, Un patrimonio cultural que sigue vivo. La teoría de la restauración como marco de referencia para la definición de una metodología de intervención para retablos, p. 14
  • Myriam Serck-Dewaide, Dos retablos amberinos del siglo XVI: el retablo de la Iglesia de San Nicolás en Enghien y el de la Iglesia de San Lamberto en Bouvignes, Bélgica, p. 20
  • Carlos M. Rúa Landa, Retablo Mayor de la Basílica Menor de San Francisco, La Paz, Bolivia, p. 34
  • Susana Cardoso Fernández, Retablo Mayor de la Iglesia de San Antonio de los Ángeles, Laguna, Santa Catarina, Brasil, p. 48
  • Adriano Reis Ramos, Retablo Mayor de la Catedral de San Antonio de Santa Bárbara, Minas Gerais, Brasil, p. 54
  • Héctor Oswaldo Prieto Gordillo, Retablo Mayor de la Iglesia de la Concepción, Bogotá, Colombia, p. 66
  • Eugenia Serpa Isaza, El Retablo de San José de Tubará, Colombia, p. 78
  • Diego Santander Gallardo, Restauración del retablo San Francisco Javier de la Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús de Quito, Ecuador, p. 94
  • Letona, Ana Carrassón López de, El Retablo de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora, Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, España, p. 110
  • Rosaura García Ramos, El retablo de Santa Eulalia de la Iglesia Parroquial de Marquínez y el retablo de San Bartolomé de la Iglesia Parroquial de Olano, Álava, España, p. 126
  • María José González López, Retablo Mayor de la Capilla Real de Granada: puesta a punto de una metodología de estudio para la intervención en retablos, p. 136
  • Franco Del Zotto, Francesca Tonini, Retablo Mayor de Santa Maria del Giglio, Tarcento, Udine, Italia, p. 162
  • Françoise Descamps, Blanca Noval Vilar, Irene Sen, Aspectos metodológicos para la elaboración del proyecto de conservación del Retablo Mayor de la Iglesia de Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Yanhuitlán, Estado de Oaxaca, México, p. 182
  • Fanny Unikel Santoncini, El sistema constructivo del Retablo de San Cayetano, Guanajuato, México: investigación y docencia, p. 198
  • Carmen Fortunata Huanay Herrera, Retablo Mayor del Palacio de Gobierno, Lima, Perú, p. 210
  • Agnès Le Gac, El Retablo de la Sacristía del Santuario Nuestra Señora da Lapa, Quintela da Lapa, Sernancelhe, Portugal, p. 216

segunda-feira, 3 de setembro de 2007

Os trabalhos dos pintores: 97

Salvador Dali, Auto-retrato, 1919.

Centraal Museum, Utrecht. Catalogue of Paintings. 1450-1600

O catálogo de pinturas datadas do período entre 1450 e 1600 do Centraal Museum, de Utrecht, vai ser publicado em papel em 2008. No entanto já está livremente disponível na internet, aqui.

Especialmente interessantes são os estudos introdutórios:

  • Molly Faries, Peter Klein, Panels and dendrochronology
  • Molly Faries, Jan van Scorel's drawing and painting technique