RG Coordinator

Carla Varela Fernandes*

 

Integrated Researchers

Alexandra Curvelo**	Francesca Iorio	Giuseppina Raggi	Madalena Matos	Maria João Pereira Coutinho*
Maria João Vilhena de Carvalho**	Nuno Senos	Pedro Flor*	Sabina de Cavi	Susana Varela Flor*

 

Collaborating Researchers

Andreia Martins Torres	Cátia Mourão	Hannah Sigur	Helder Carita*	Hilda Frias
Joana Ramôa Melo	Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer	Maria João Petisca	Michela Degortes	Nuno Villamariz Oliveira
Rui Oliveira Lopes	Sílvia Ferreira*	Ulrike Körber

*also integrates the RG LxSt

**also integrates the RG MuSt

 

Postgraduate Students

Beatriz Dantas	Carolina Proença	Inês Mineiro Abreu	Joanna Cieminska	João Júlio Rumsey Teixeira
José Bruto da Costa	Laura Lestani	Lúcia Valdevino	Manuel Apóstolo	Margot Opitz Vilaça
Maria João Burnay	Raquel Seixas

 

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Keywords

Ornament and Decorative Arts

Cultural Transfers

Social Life of Objects

Reception and Meanings

 

Description

Pre-MODERN results from the fusion of 2 former groups: Artistic Horizons of Hispania and Medieval and Modern Art Studies. Its focused on the networks that connected distant regions and facilitated transfers. The research carried on by its members concentrates on the movement of objects and people, materials and models, as well as intangible culture (knowledge, technical skills, literature). It covers a wide range of geographic areas (from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific) and periods (from the 1st century A.D. to the 18th century). This broad range allows for novel approaches and transcultural comparisons, breaking down traditional stylistic divisions, and looking to the social, political and economic realities of each period to better understand its cultural production.

Pre-MODERN studies the dynamics that surpass individual cases. More specifically, it focus on questions regarding the reception, appropriation, adaptation, rejection and/or resistance towards imported artistic models and concepts; the mobility of artists, merchants, diplomats and other agents that have disseminated these models and concepts through traveling and working in various environments; the movement of objects, studied not only for their artistic worth, but as material objects that transmitted new values to different cultural environments and initiated cultural sequences of great importance (such as the azulejo or talha dourada transplanted in the colonies); and the circulation of ideas, concepts, and texts that played a fundamental role in implementing practices, such as in the case of architectural treatises.
Its members articulate with NOVA FCSH’s Art History Department through mobility programmes and Seminars’ offer for students and a more general public (teachers and tourism professionals).