Mónica Esteves ReisUniversidade NOVA de Lisboa | NOVA · Centre for Overseas History (CHAM)
Mónica Esteves Reis
Heritage and History (Art History specialization)
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Introduction
Integrated Researcher of CHAM – Center for the Humanities. Grant awarded from Fundação Oriente, Portugal, with the project “Plan for the Preservation of the Historical and Artistic Heritage of the Archdiocese of Goa”. Ph.D. in History and Heritage (2016), with specialization in Art History by the University of Algarve. Obtained a degree in Cultural Heritage from the same university (2007). Member of ICOMOS-Portugal (International Council of Monuments and Sites).
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As examples of the interpretative capacity, ingenuity, and art of local carvers, Indo-Portuguese altarpieces show how religious-cultural differences could be re-enacted to create new and very particular forms that enriched Indo-Portuguese artistic production. The Northern Province played an important role in the economy of Portuguese India from the...
How to preserve a set of paintings made with European materials and taken to South Asia in the 16th century? A set of seven paintings belonging to the first altarpiece of Goa Cathedral now remain in its sacristy. Art history states that these paintings, assigned to the painter Garcia Fernandes, were produced in Lisbon circa 1530 and carried to Goa...
Comunication presented at P26-Old Goa: the city/port as a place of encounter and cross-cultural exchanges, shaping identities, urban spaces and built-up heritage
"(...) A project called “De Artibus in Auream Goa – Preparing the image, trans-contextualisation in Golden Age of Portuguese Painting,” funded by FCT-Foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Orient Foundation is in Goa to research more about the art and artists of the times. There were several names in the historical archives that point out t...
http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/7866
O advento da descoberta marítima para a Índia proporcionou a abertura do diálogo cultural da Europa com a Ásia de uma forma mais reiterada que a que se vinha repetindo por terra. Partiu-se de Lisboa em busca dos cristãos perdidos e nesta motivação justificaram-se os actos de cariz economicista. As Ordens Religiosa...
The altarpieces, in the scenario of the quest for evangelization of the Indian sub-continent, began to acquire different forms, different artistic grammars and most of all, a spectacular inter-religiosity dialogue, for local long term generation artisans were now in the making of these altarpieces. The altarpiece is in this perspective the represen...
Through art with art, the strategies of conversion through native forms and symbols [See, Compare and Adapt] The arriving in India by the Portuguese was the result of an economic intent disguised with the search of the long lost Christians. To maintain this strategy, after the conquest of the first territories along the Indian coast in the beginnin...
See, compare and adapt: the individuality of Indo-Portuguese retable art begins with the missionaries understanding of the potential of conversion thru art, and at the same time, local artisans begin the introduction of non-liturgical representations, even though with the same devotional connotation
A presença portuguesa na Índia a partir do século XVI (Ilustração 1) deu continuidade ao processo de intercâmbios que havia sido iniciado há mais de 2000 anos: os intercâmbios artísticos iniciados com as invasões indo-europeias, perpetuados pela influência da arte de povos tão distintos como os mesopotâmios, persas e helénicos e com crenças tão dis...
Resumo: A investigação em curso da arte retabular do território Indo ‑Português tem vindo a revelar especificidades na produção artística referente ao território goês que a destaca da produção do restante território de contacto. Estas especificidades, que se manifestam nos detalhes entalhados dos vários elementos arquitectónicos, permitem avançar c...
The CRCH2011 workshop began intending to give its trainees the tools required to solicit, regulate, and undertake conservation-restoration projects in a manner that protects and respects the cultural heritage legacy that has been entrusted to them. It was in the coordinator believe that a better understanding of cultural heritage could contribute t...
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Question (1)
There are some better maps than others, to give some examples: Linschoten (1595), Pedro Barreto de Resende (1635), Plan de Goa (1750), Lopes Mendes (1863), Direcção das Obras Públicas (1910), etc
If one could should at least 5 in order of relevance what would they be and why.