RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 39
November 2003
 

 PART IV:
Art & Art History, Architecture
Archeology, Applied Arts

 
See also items 1, 2, 28, 78, 89, 106, 107, and 157.
11. BEIRA, Maria Ângela, Alberto Vieira, Santiago Aragon, et al. Arqueologia do estado: 1as Jornadas sobre formas de organização e exercício dos poderes na Europa do Sul, Séculos XIII-XVIII. 2 vols. Lisbon: História & Crítica, 1988. Comunicações 1-2. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. xii [i.e. viii], 560 pp.; (4 ll.), pp. 561-1169. ISBN: none. 2 vols. $90.00

Out-of-print. We have one set in stock

 
12. CÔRTE-REAL, Manuel H. O Palácio das necessidades. Lisbon: Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, 1983. Folio (29.5 x 21.2 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 161 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus., about 1/3 illus. in color. ISBN: none. $50.00
 

13. CRUZ, António João. Da sombra para a luz: materiais e técnicas da pintura de Bento Coelho da Silveira. Lisbon: IPPAR / Ministério da Cultura, 1999. Colecção Cadernos, 3. Lge. 4° (27.1 x 23.2 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 86 pp., (1 l.), much illus. in color. ISBN: 972-8087-66-7. $30.00

 
14. DIAS, Pedro, ed. Estudos sobre escultura e esculturas do Norte da Europa em Portugal: época manuelina. Lisbon: CNCDP, 1997. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 310 pp., numerous illus. ISBN: 972-8325-32-0. $45.00

Contributions by Ignace Vandevivere, Luís Reis-Santos, Francisco Pato de Macedo, Nelson Correia Borges, Bernardo Ferrão Tavares e Távora, Adriano Vasco Rodrigues, Pedro Dias, Luis Keil, and Flórido de Vasconcelos.

 
15. LHOTE, Jean-François, John Hays, José Gil, et al. A arte do retrato: quotidiano e circunstância. Lisbon: Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, 1999. Lge. 4° (28 x 23.4 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 219 pp., (1 l.), profusely and excellently illus. ISBN: 972-8128-57-6. $75.00

Catalogue of an exhibition held from October 1999 to January 2000. In addition to the contributors mentioned above, there are essays by Luís de Moura Sobral and Raquel Henriques da Silva. João Castel-Branco Pereira provides an introduction.
 

16. MACIEL, M. Justino. Antiguidade tardia e paleocristianismo em Portugal. Lisbon: the Author, 1996. Folio (29.6 x 21.2 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. 347 pp., 2 folding leaves, illus. in text (some in color). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-96934-0-4. $90.00
 

17. MARKL, Alexandra Reis Gomes. António Ramalho. Lisbon: INAPA, 2003. Pintura Portuguesa. Folio (29 x 22.8 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 126 pp., (1 l.)., profusely with excellent color illus. ISBN: 972-797-026-5. $60.00

For António [Monteiro] Ramalho [Júnior], noted painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (1858-1916), a disciple of Silva Porto and of Cabanel, see Pamplona (2nd ed.) V, 8-12.
 

18. PEREIRA, Paulo. 2000 Years of Art in Portugal. Mark Raishbrook, trans. Lisbon: Temas e Debates, 1999. Lge. 4° (27.5 x 25.1 cm.), publ. cloth with d.j. 349 pp., profusely and excellently illus. ISBN: 972-759-204-X. $100.00

Admirable survey. The Portuguese edition is out-of-print. The English translation reads smoothly.
 

19. RAMOS, Maria, Piet de Jonge, and Nicolette Enke, eds. In the Rough: Imagens da natureza através dos tempos na colecção do Museu Boijmans Van Beuningen, 13 de Janeiro a 1 de Abril de 2001. / In the Rough: Images of Nature through the Ages in the Collection of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, January 13 through April 1, 2001. Porto: Museu Serralves, 2001. Lge. 4° (27.7 x 21 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 287, (1) pp., profusely and very well illus., mostly in color. Text in Portuguese and English. ISBN: 972-739-082-X. $75.00

This nicely produced exhibition catalogue includes essays by John Berger, Nuno Faria, and Jan Wolkers.

 
20. REGO, Paula, and Antonio Tabucchi. Fogo. / Fuoco. / Fire. Translations by Gaêtan Martins de Oliveira, Richard Zenith, Teresa Ramos, and Clara Rowland. Lisbon: Mediatexto, 2003. 4°, publisher's illustrated boards. 85, (1) pp., 12 full-page and 1 double page color illus. Text in Portuguese, Italian, and English. ISBN: 972-797-054-0. $35.00

Paula Rego painted tiles for an unfinished section of the garden of the Palace of the Marques da Fronteira. (Tiles illustrating "Air," "Water," and "Earth" had been installed in the seventeenth century; the tiles for "Fire" were never put in place). Antonio Tabucchi wrote a story to accompany the theme.