Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

• Home
• Recent Catalogues
• Contact
• Lisbon office
• Search Old & Rare Books and Manuscripts
• Search Recent Portuguese Publications
• Guest Book

RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 43

October 2004

 

PART IV:

Art & Art History, Architecture,

Archeology, Applied Arts

 
See also items 3, 37, 79, 82, 117 & 118.

7. ABREU, Alexandre Cancela, José Adrião, Teresa Alfaiate, et al. A utopia e os pés na terra: Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, and Evora: Museu de Evora, 2003. Lge. 4° (29 x 24.15 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 343 pp., amply and excellently illus., mostly in color. ISBN: 972-776-171-2. $100.00

Catalogue for an exhibition on the life and work of the landscape architect Gonçalo Pereira Ribeiro Telles, held at the Museu de Evora, 22 February to 18 May, at the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, 29 May to 30 August, and at the Museu Municipal de Coruche, 13 September to 30 November 2003. Included are texts by Fernando Pessoa, Henrique Barrilaro Ruas, António Facco Viana Barreto, Francisco de Sousa Tavares, Mário Soares, Francisco Manuel Caldeira Cabral, Nuno de Mendoça, Ilídio de Araújo (pp. 73-98), Augusto Ferreira do Amaral, and others. Plans and Projects of Ribeiro Telles occupy pp. 137-248; a chronology of his work takes up pp. 249-278; while various texts and interviews by him fill the rest of the volume.

 
8. ARRUDA, Ana Margarida, Catarina Viegas, and Maria José de Almeida, eds. De Scallabis a Santarém. Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, and Santarém: Câmara Municipal, 2002. Lge. 4° (28 x 24 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 215 pp., profusely and excellently illus. in color, maps in text. ISBN: 972-776-131-3. $70.00

Texts by Amílcar Guerra, Ana Margarida Arruda, André Carneiro, António Matias, Carla Lopes, Carlos Fabião, Cararina Viegas, Hermenegildo Fernandes, Jorge Alarcão, Jorge Custódio, Maria José de Almeida, Maria M.B. Magalhães Ramalho, and Vasco Mantas.

 
9. BASTOS, Celina, and José António Proença. Museu de Lamego: mobiliário. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, and Lamego: Museu de Lamego, 1999. Lge. 4° (28.1 x 23.2 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 143 pp., profusely and superbly illus. in color. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-776-033-3. $45.00

Seventeenth-, eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century furniture from the Paço Episcopal de Lamego.

 
10. CAETANO, Joaquim Inácio. O Marão e as oficinas de pintura mural nos séculos XV e XVI. Lisbon: Aparição, 2001. Estudos de Património Cultural, 1. Sm. folio (27 x 19.2 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 86 pp., profusely illus., more than half illus. in color. ISBN: 972-8671-03-2. $40.00

This new collection is under the direction of Catarina Valença Gonçalves.

 
11. CARDIM RIBEIRO, José, ed. Religiões da Lvisitânia: loquuntur saxa. Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, 2002. Lge. 4° (31 x 25.1 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 578 pp., profusely and very well illus. in color. One of 500 copies. ISBN: 972-776-147-x. $150.00

Excellent, massive exhibition catalogue, weighing 3.5 kilos. It includes essays, all in Portuguese, by Cardim Ribeiro (4), José d'Encarnação, Freancisco Marco Simón, José María Blázquez (2), Antonio Rodríguez Colmenero (2), Alain Tranoy, João L. Inês Vaz, Amílcar Guerra (2), Javier de Hoz Bravo and Fernando Fernández Palacios, Juan Manuel Abascal Palazón, Carlos Búa, Jürgen Untermann, Pernando Patrício Curado, Maria Manuela Alves Dias (2), Robert Etienne, Francisco Beltrán Lloris, Vasco Gil Mantas (2), Luís da Silva Fernandes (3), Francisco Diez de Velasco, António Marques de Faria, Helena Frade, Ana Ribeiro, Marc Mayer, Jaime Alvar, Géza Alföldy, Theodor Hauschild (2), Ana Margarida Arruda and Catarina Viegas, Helena Frade and José Carlos Caetano, Vasco Gil Mantas, Jorge de Alarcão, Vasco de Souza, António Pinto, José Ruivo, José d'Encarnação and João Carlos Lázaro Faria, Guilerme Cardoso, Maria de la Salete da Ponte, Victor Jabouille, Janine Lanch, Tatiana Kuznetsova-Resende, José María Alvarez Martínez, Trinidad Nogales Basarrate and António Carvalho and Maria José Almeida, José Luís de Matos, Aires A. Nascimento, Helena Gimeno Pascual, Carlos Fabião, and Carlos Guimarães and Luís Soares Carneiro.



12. CARVALHO, Anabela, ed. O presépio da Madre de Deus. Lisbon: Museu Nacional do Azulejo / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, 2003. Folio (29 x 22.8 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 143 pp., profusely and superbly illus. in color (pp. 65-79 consist of color transparencies). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-776-209-3. $60.00

Text mainly by Alexandre Nobre de Pais, with brief sections by Maria João Vilhena de Carvalho and Laura Portugal Romão.

 
13. CURVELO, Alexandra, Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos, and Maria João Vilhena de Carvalho, eds. Da Flandres e do Oriente: escultura importada, Colecção Miguel Pinto. Lisbon: Casa-Museu Dr. Antastácio Gonçalves / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, 2002. Lge. 4° (28.1 x 24 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 199, (1) pp., profusely and superbly illus. in color. ISBN: 972-776-152-6. $80.00

Exhibition catalogue including essays by Rafael Moreira, "A importação de obras de arte em Portugal no século XVI" (pp. 11-22); Pedro Dias, "A influência da escultura nórdica na escultura portuguesa da época manuelina" (pp. 23-40); Ignace Vandevivere, "Uma colecção de imagens 'flamengas'" (pp. 41-6); Maria João Vilhena de Carvalho, "As esculturas em madeira: apresentação" (pp. 47-54); and Alexandra Curvelo, "O núcleo de marfins luso-orientais: apresentação e metodologia de estudo" (pp. 55-60). The catalogue is divided into sections on sculpture (pp. 61-132); paintings (pp. 133-40); ivory (pp. 141-88); and "Extra colecção" (pp. 189-94).

 
14. FALCÃO, Isabel. Pintura portuguesa: Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves. Lisbon: Casa-Museu Dr. Antastácio Gonçalves / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, 2003. Lge. 4° (28 x 24.1 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 307 pp., profusely and superbly illus. in color. $90.00

Strong collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Portuguese paintings, with a few outstanding eighteenth-century examples as well. Included are works by Tomás da Anunciação, Mário Augusto , Frederico Ayres, D. Carlos de Bragança, Artur Alves Cardoso, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Ricardo Hogan, Alfredo Keil, Miguel Lupi, José Malhoa, João Marques de Oliveira, Francisco Metrass, Ezequiel Pereira, Severo Portela Júnior, Henrique Pousão, António Ramalho, Carlos Reis, Ricardo Ruivo, Veloso Salgado, António Saúde, Domingos Sequeira, António Silva Lino, António Silva Porto, João Vaz, Francisco Vieira (o Portuense), and Francisco Vieira Lusitano.

 
15. FARIA, Almeida, Joaquim Matos Chaves, Joaquim Oliveira Caetano, et al. Charrua: Museu de Evora, Setembro-Novembro 2001. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, and Evora: Museu de Evora / Câmara Municipal, 2001. Lge. 4° (28 x 24.85 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 154 pp., (1 l.), 22 folding color plates, profusely and excellently illus. in color. ISBN: 972-8509-20-0. $55.00

António (Dias) Charrua, Portuguese expressionist painter, who afterwards changed his style to "abstracto de másculo," was born in 1925. His work is represented in the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, and the Helsinki Museum. See Pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses [1987-88] II, 91-2.
 

16. GUARDA, Museu da. Guide to the Guarda Museum. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério da Cultura, and Guarda: Museu da Guarda, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 117 pp., profusely and well illus. in color. ISBN: 972-776-195-X. $25.00

 
17. HENRIQUES, Paulo, João Paulo Martins, Luís de Moura Sobral, et al. Igreja da Madre de Deus: história, conservação e restauro. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura / Instituto Português de Conservação e Restauro, 2002. Folio (30 x 23.4 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 257 pp., profusely and excellently illus. in color. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-776-114-3. $90.00

The Madre de Deus Church contains a lavish interior, beautiful cloisters, important tiles, and significant paintings. The first half of this book is devoted to its architecture, contents and treasures; the second half deals with the conservation and restoration campaign of 1999-2001. Included are texts by Henriques, Martins, Moura Sobral, José Alberto Seabra, Maria João Vilhena de Carvalho, João Pedro Monteiro, Nuno Vassallo e Silva, Teresa Campos and Paulo Henriques, Ana Isabel Seruya, João Herdade, and Luís Casanovas.

 
18. LAPA, Pedro. Joaquim Rodrigo: Time and Inscription. Lisbon: Museu do Chiado / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério da Cultura, 2000. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 239, (1) pp., profusely and excellently illus. in color. ISBN: 972-776-043-0. $60.00

On the initially abstract, then neofigurative "pop" artist, "pintor de vanguarda" Joaquim [José] Rodrigo (born Lisbon, 1912), "num jeito de ingenuidade infantil e de repescagem de recordações nas brumas da memória, às vezes até com ressaibos dadaístas" see Pamplona (revised ed.) V, 72-4. Rodrigo's work is present in the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, the Fundação Caluste Gulbenkian, the Museu do Funchal, and in Portuguese State collections.

 
19. LISBON. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga. Roteiro. Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério da Cultura, and Porto: Asa, 2003. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 276 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-776-206-9 (IPM); 972-41-3678-7 (Asa). $45.00

 
20. LISBON, Museu Nacional do Azulejo. Roteiro. Lisbon: Museu Nacional do Azulejo / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério da Cultura, and Porto: Asa, 2003. Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 239, (1) pp., profusely and well illus. in color. ISBN: 972-776-215-8 (IPM); 972-41-3676-0 (Asa). $40.00

 
21. MOURA SOBRAL, Luís de. Pintura portuguesa do século XVII: histórias lendas narratives. Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, 2004. Lge. 4° (28.1 x 25.3 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 239 pp., profusely and very well illustrated, mostly in color. ISBN: 972-776-223-9. $90.00
 

22. NOBRE PAIS, Alexandre, Ana Almeida, and João Pedro Monteiro, eds. Real Fábrica de Louça, ao Rato. Lisbon: Museu Nacional do Azulejo, and Porto: Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, 2003. Lge. 4° (28 x 23.1 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 553 pp., (2 ll.), profusely and very well illustrated in color. ISBN: 972-8225-08-3. $110.00

This lavish exhibition catalogue includes essays by Nobre Pais and Monteiro "Sobre a historiografia da Real Fábrica de Louça" (pp. 14-29); Monteiro, "A Real Fábrica de Louça" (pp. 30-107); Nuno Luís Madureira, "Informação e gestão na Real Fábrica de Louça" (pp. 108-29); Rudolf Shnyder, "A Real Fábrica de Louça ao Rato no contexto europeu" (pp. 130-141); Lurdes Esteves, "Tecnologia de uma fábrica: materiais e produtos na Real Fábrica de Louça" (pp. 142-71). The actual catalogue, by Nobre Pais, occupies pp. 172-435. It is followed by essays by João Castel-Branco Pereira, "Notícias para a história dos azulejos na Real Fábrica de Louça" (pp. 436-47); and Paulo Henriques, "Os azulejos da Real Fábrica de Louça: do rococó aos eclectismos" (pp. 448-540). A bibliography occupies pp. 543-53.
 

23. OREY, Leonor d', Lorenz Seelig, Annemarie Jordan, et al. Mesas reais europeias: encomendas e ofertas. Royal and Princely Tables of Europe: Comissions and Gifts. / Tables Royales en Europe: Commandes et Cadeaux. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Museus / Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, 1999. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 300 pp., (2 ll.), many illus. in text. ISBN: 972-776-017-1. $45.00

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisboa, 12-14 December 1996. The titles given on the front cover are European Royal Tables: International Symposium Acts. / Actas do Simpósio Internacional: mesas reais europeias. / Actes du Colloque International: Tables Royales en Europe. The texts of the papers are printed in the languages in which they were originally given: sixteen are in English and four are in French. The phrase Researching Court Life, in English only, appears vertically at the inner margin of the title page.
 

24. PEREIRA, Paulo, and José Martins Carneiro. Pena Palace. Lisbon and London: IPPAR / Ministério da Cultura / Scala, 1999. Sm. folio (27.5 x 19.5 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 128 pp., profusely illus. with high-quality color photographs. ISBN: 972-8087-62-4. $40.00
 

25. Pinto de Matos, Maria Antónia, ed., with José António Proença. Henri Burnay: de banqueiro a coleccionador. Lisbon: Casa-Museu Dr. Antastácio Gonçalves / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, 2003. Lge. 4° (28 x 24.2 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 284 pp., profusely and superbly illus. in color. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-776-188-7. $90.00

Texts by Pinto de Matos, Raquel Henriques da Silva (on collecting in Portugal in the nineteenth cenury), Maria Filomena Mónica (a brief biography of Burnay), and Giulia Rossi Vairo (4: on Burnay as a public and private man, the origins and formation of his collecting, the "leilão Burany" and a brief introduction to the catalogue). The catalogue is divided into paintings (pp. 81-182); ourivesaria (i.e. silver, pp. 183-6); porcelain (pp. 187-202); furniture (pp. 203-28) and textiles (pp. 229-49). There is a valuable register of documents from the Arquivo Burnay in the Torre do Tombo (pp. 252-77).
 

26. PORFIRIO, José Luís Gordo, Wenzel Jacob, José Alberto Seabra Carvalho, et al. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Bonn: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle de Bundesrepublik Deutschland, and Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, 2001. Lge. 4° (28 x 24.65 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 381, (2, 1 blank) pp., profusely and superbly illus. in color. Text in English. ISBN: none. $60.00

Published in connection with the exhibition "The Great Collections VIII: Museu National de Arte Antiga, Lisbon" 26 March-11 July 1999, at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn. Includes essays by Anísio Franco, "The Art of the Goldsmith in Romanesque Portugal and the Testament of King Sancho I" (pp. 62-88); Ignace Vandevivere, "The Six Panels from the St. Vincento Altarpiece by Nuno Gonçalves" (pp. 89-96); Giulia Rossi Vairo, "Piero della Francesca's St. Augustine" (pp. 97-123); Matthias Weniger, "Early Portuguese Painting" (pp. 124-37); Dagoberto L. Markl, "Portuguese Book Illumination in the Sixteenth Century" (pp. 154-8); Annemarie Jordan, "The Renaissance Portrait in Portugal" (pp. 177-90); Rafael Salinas Calado, "The Medici Porcelain" (pp. 190-201); Enrique Valdivieso, "Francisco de Zurbarán's Twelve Apostles" (pp. 202-14); Peter C. Sutton, "Peter de Hooch's Merry Company"(pp. 215-44); Ulrich Bauche, "Portuguese Faience of the Seventeenth Century and its Influence in Europe" (pp. 245-57); Leonor d'Orey, "Eighteenth-Century French Silver" (pp. 258-83); Maria Alice Beaumont, "The Collection of Drawings" (pp. 284-307); Alexandra Reis Gomes Markl, "Grandeur and Imagination: The Drawings of the Galli Bibiena Family" (pp. 308-16); José Luís Gordo Porfírio, "A Painter in Changing Times: Domingos António de Sequeira" (pp. 317-29); Maria Helena Mendes Pinto, "Indo-Portuguese Art" (pp. 336-40); Lotika Varadarajan, "Indo-Portuguese Textiles and the "Karkhana Tradition" (pp. 341-59); and Conceição Borges de Sousa, "The Portuguese in Japan: Namban Art" (pp. 360-1).
 

27. PORTO, Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis. Roteiro da colecção. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério da Cultura, and Porto: Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, 2001. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 209 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-776-104-6. $60.00

 
28. PROENÇA, José António. Mobiliário da Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves. Introduction by Maria Antónia Pinto Matos. Lisbon: Casa-Museu Dr. Antastácio Gonçalves / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, 2002. Lge. 4° (28.1 x 24 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 578 pp., profusely and superbly illus. in color. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-776-167-4. $90.00

After a brief essay on the physician Dr. António Anastácio Gonçalves as a collector of furniture, the catalogue is divided in sections on Portuguese (pp. 17-144), French (pp. 145-74), English (pp. 175-206), Dutch (pp. 207-18), and other [i.e. Spanish and Chinese (pp. 219-28)] furniture of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries.

 
29. SANTOS, David. Desenho e modernismo nas colecções do Museu do Chiado, 1900-1940. Lisbon: Ministério da Cultura / Instituto Português de Museus / Museu do Chiado, and Castelo Branco: Museu de Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior, 2001. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 93 pp., (1 l.), profusely and exquisitely illus. (many illus. in color). ISBN: 972-776-097-x. $35.00

 
30. SANTOS, David. Figuração e abstracção nas colecções do Museu do Chiado, 1940-1960. Lisbon: Ministério da Cultura / Instituto Português de Museus / Museu do Chiado, and Castelo Branco: Museu de Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior, 2002. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 109 pp., (1 l.), profusely and exquisitely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-776-127-5. $35.00

 
31. SEABRA CARVALHO, José Alberto, José Luís Porfírio, and Maria João Vilhena de Carvalho. A espada e o deserto. Guarda: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, 2002. Lge. 4° (25.6 x 21.7 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 47, (1) pp., profusely and excellently illus. in color. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-776-141-0. $30.00

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, April to September 2002.

 
32. SOEIRO, Renato, and Luís Branco, eds. Guilherme Camarinha, 1912-1994: Catálogo da exposição, Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Porto, Janeiro a Março de 2003. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, and Porto: Museu Soares Nacional de Soares dos Reis, 2002. Folio (30.5 x 22 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 343 pp., profusely and excellently illus. in color. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-776-169-0. $110.00

Includes texts by Teresa Viana, Laura Castro, Sandra Vaz Costa, António Manuel Nunes, Vera Sá da Costa, Pascale Grémont Gervaise, José Manuel Moreira, and Manuel António Pina and Renato Soeiro. On the neofigurative Portuguese painter Guilherme Camarinha, whose work is represented in the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, the Fundação Caluste Gulbenkian, the Biblioteca-Museu de Amarante, Museums of Caldas da Rainha, Tomar and Ovar, and in Portuguese State collections, see Pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses (revised ed.), II, 21.

 
33. VARELA GOMES, Rosa, and Mário Varela Gomes. Palácio Almoada da Alcáçova de Silves: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Junho a Dezembro, 2001. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura / Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, and Silves: Câmara Municipal / Museu Municipal de Arqueologia, 2001. Sm. folio (26 x 20 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 154 pp., numerous excellent illus., mostly in color, maps in text. ISBN: 972-776-100-3. $45.00

Includes a brief essay, "Silves - introducção histórica" by A.H. de Oliveira Marques.

 
34. VILHENA DE CARVALHO, Maria João, ed. O sentido das imagens: esultura e arte em Portugal [1300-1500]. Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, 2000. Lge. 4° (28 x 24.15 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 277 pp., profusely and excellently illus. in color. ISBN: 972-776-069-4. $75.00

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Includes essays by Humberto Basquero Moreno, José Custódio Vieira da Silva, Paulo Perreira and Sérgio Guimarães de Andrade.