RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 61

April 2008


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


See also items 27, 35, 47, 72, 75 & 85.
6. ABREU, Alberto A., Ana Isabel Santos, Carlos A. Brochado de Almeida, et al. O ouro tradicional de Viana do Castelo: da pré-história à actualidade. Viana do Castelo: Câmara Municipal, and Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia / Ministério de Cultura / Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação, 2007. 4° (21 x 21 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 154 pp., (1 l.), profusely and very well illus. in color, bibliography. Text in Portuguese and English. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: none. $50.00


7. FERREIRA, Maria João Pacheco. As alfaias bordadas sinoportuguesas (séculos XVI a XVII). Lisbon: Universidade Lusíada Editora, 2007. Colecção Teses. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 280 pp., many illus. in text, footnotes. One of 500 copies. ISBN: 978-972-8883-42-0. $45.00


8. FIGEUIREDO, Silvério, and José Carvalho. A pré-história do Espichel: subsídios para uma carta arqueológica do Cabo Espichel. Chamusca: Cosmos, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 79 pp., maps and illus. in text. ISBN: 978-972-762-296-2. $25.00


9. HENRIQUES, Ana de Castro, ed. Carpets and paintings, 15th-18th centuries: The oriental carpet in Portugal. Lisbon: Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação / Ministério da Cultura, 2007. Very lge. 4° (28 x 24.2 cm.), orig. prtd. wrps. 198 pp., profusely and very nicely illus. in color, footnotes, bibliographies, tables and graphs in text. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-776-343-6. $80.00
Sumptuous catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museu de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. It includes texts by Teresa Pacheco Pereira, Jessica Hallett, Steven Cohen, Vítor Serrão, Maria Teresa Desterro, Celina Bastos, and others. There are sections on Iberian, Turkish, Persian and Indian carpets, as well as several sections on various aspects of images of carpets in paintings. At the end are inventories of oriental carpets in Portuguese collections, and of representations of carpets in Portuguese painting.


10. LAPA, Pedro, ed. Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, 1874-1900. Lisbon: Museu do Chiado / Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea / Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação / Ministério da Cultura, 2007. Folio (29 x 23 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 256 pp. (including 2 folding leaves with double page color illus.), profusely and well illus., mostly in color, footnotes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-776-323-8. $80.00
Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Museu do Chiado, Lisbon. It includes texts by Pedro Lapa, Maria de Aires Silveira, and Maria Jesús Ávila.


11. RAMOS, Maria, ed. João Vieira: corpos de letras. / Bodies of letters. Introduction by Vicente Todoli. Porto: Fundação de Serralves / Asa, 2002. Lge. 4° (25.6 x 20.8 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 287, (1) pp., profusely and very well illus. in color, bibliography, filmography, videography. Text in Portuguese and English. ISBN: 972-739-098-6 (Fundação Serralves); 972-41-2827-X (Asa). $75.00
Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea of the Fundação Serralves, Porto, from January 18 through March 10, 2002. There are texts by João Fernandes, Helder Macedo, and Raquel Henriques da Silva.


12. SERRÃO, Vitor. A trans-memória das imagens: estudos iconológicos de pintura portuguesa (séculos XVI-XVIII). Chamusca: Cosmos, 2007. Cosmos Literatura, 57. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 312 pp., illus., extensive footnotes. ISBN: 972-762-287-9. $40.00
Included are two poems by Nuno Júdice.


13. SERRÃO, Vítor, and José Meco. Palmela histórico-artística: um inventário do património artístico concelhio Palmela: Câmara Municipal, and Lisbon: Colibri, 2007. Folio (27 x 20 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 507 pp., much illus. (about half in color), footnotes, extensive bibliography. ISBN: 978-972–772–765–0. $90.00


14. SILVA, Armando Coelho Ferreira da, ed. Pedra formosa: arqueologia experimental, Vila Nova de Famalicão. Vila Nova da Famalição: Câmara Municipal, and Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia / Instituto Português de Museus / Ministério de Cultura, 2007. Lge. 4° (25.8 x 25.7 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 235 pp., profusely and very nicely illus., mostly in color, color maps in text, bibliography. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-989-8012-08-1. $90.00
Nicely produced exhibition catalogue, with texts by Angel Vill Valdés, António Pereira Dinis, Armando Coelho Ferreira da Silva, Felisbela Oliveira, Francisco Queiroga, João Machado, Jorge Pamplona, and Margarida Moreira.


15. SOLOVIOV, Alexandre, Georgy Vilinbakhov, Natalya Guseva, et al. Arte e cultura do Imprério Russo nas colecções do Hermitage: de Pedro, o Grande, a Nicolau II. / Art and culture of the Russian Emprire in the Hermitage Collection: From Peter, the Great, to Nicholas II. Lisbon: Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação, 2007. Folio (30.1 x 22.4 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 439 pp., profusely and superbly illus. in color. Text in Portuguese and English. ISBN: 978-972-776-351-1. $120.00
Lavish catalogue of an exhibition held at the Galeria de Pintura do Rei D. Luís I, Palácio Nacional da Ajuda.



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