RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 65

February 2009

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


See also items 4, 38, 43, 47, 52, 60, 62, 65, 75, 97, 99, 116, 117, 145, 146, 151 & 152.
21. ALACÃO, Jorge, Theodor Haushild, Maria Conceição Lopes, et al. Imagenes y mensajes: escultura romana del Museu de Évora. Joaquim Oliveira Caetano and Trinidad Nogales Basarrate, eds. Lisbon: Ministério da Cultura / Instituto Português de Museus, and Évora: Museu de Évora, and Mérida: Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, 2005. Folio (28.05 x 23.2 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 111 pp., profusely and nicely illus. in color, footnotes, bibliography. ISBN: 972-776-295-6. $50.00


22. HELDER [Luís Bernardes de Oliveira], Herberto. Francisco Ferreira: lapinha do caseiro. Photographs by Ricardo Jardim. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2008. Colecção Arte e Producção, 90. Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 127, (1) pp., profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 978-972–37–1387-9. $45.00
Francisco Ferreira was the great grandfather of Herberto Helder. He was born on 11 October 1848 in the freguesia do Monte, on the Island of Madeira, and died there 13 June, 1931, at age 82. A self-taught sculptor, he was most admired for a presépio designed over many years, which included, besides the standard religious images, persons and figures typical of Madeira, carved in wood and cork, and painted with his own natural pigments. Page 9-11 and 125-7 contain poems by Herberto Helder about his ancestor. On this major poet, born at Funchal, 1930, considered by many the greatest living Portuguese poet, see Nuno Júdice in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 238: "Desde os primeiros livros (O Amor em Vista, 1958, e A Colher na Boca, 1961), a poesia de Herberto Helder tornou–se um momento ímpar na afirmação daquilo que, em Portugal, se pode considerar com a mais conseguida realização do visionarismo poético ocidental, que recebe a herança de Rimbaud e Lautréamont e passa pelo surrealismo." Américo Lindeza Diogo in Biblos, II, 973, states ". . . Helder é dos nossos poetas contemporâneos o único que tem pingos de génio."


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. PIRES, Isabel, and Rosário Salema de Carvalho. O património azulejar do Concelho de Montijo. Coordenação Científica de Maria Alexandra Trindade Gago da Câmara. Lisbon: Colibri, and Montijo: Câmara Municipal, 2008. Colecção Estudos Locais, Cultura, 7. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 161 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus., mostly in color, 1 large folding plan, maps and plans in text, glossary. ISBN: 978-972-772-817-6. $35.00


25. RIBEIRO, Maria Manuela Tavares, Pedro Navascués Palacio, Pedro Dias, et al. O neomanuelino, ou a reinvenção da arquitectura dos descobrimentos. Lisbon: CNCDP / IPPAR, 1994. Folio (29.9 x 23 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 298 pp., (1 l.), profusely and deliciously illustrated, mostly in color. ISBN: 972-95871-5-9. $80.00
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Galeria de Pintura do Rei D. Luís, Palácio de Ajuda, Lisboa, 1994, featuring the fantastic Portuguese architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition to the authors mentioned above, there are texts by Regina Anacleto (2), and Fernando Catroga, and a brief introductory essay, "Os crimes oitocentistas ou os filhos de Mary Shelley", by Vasco Graça Moura.


26. SERRÃO, Joaquim Veríssimo, Maria do Rosário Azevedo Cruz, Augusto Mesquitela Lima, et al. Encontro de culturas: oito séculos de missionação portuguesa. Lisbon: CNCDP, 1994. Folio (31 x 23.7 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 479 pp., profusely and splendidly illus. in color, footnotes, bibliography. ISBN: none. $175.00
Catalogue for an excellent exhibition held at the Mosteiro de São Vicente de Fora, July to December 1994. In addition to the authors mentioned above, there are contributions by António Dias Farinha, Father John Correia Afonso, Aníbal Pinto de Castro, and Adriano Moreira, among others. This is a truly cross-disciplinary work, done on the highest level, combining the history of art, bibliography, and religion with the history of European expansion. Missionary activity in Brazil and various parts of Asia and Africa is emphasized.


27. SILVA, António Manuel S.P., Isabel Maria Fernandes, Manuela C.S. Ribeiro, et al. Fábrica de louça de Miragaia. Margarida Rebelo Correia, ed. Lisbon: Ministério da Cultura / Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação / Museu Nacional do Azulejo, and Porto: Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, 2008. Folio (28.45 x 23.65 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 255 pp., profusely and excellently illus. in color, footnotes, tables in text, marks, bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-776-374-0. $80.00
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Porto, 27 November 2008 to 1 March 2009, and the Museu Nacional do Azulejo, March to June 2009. The ceramics factory of Miragaia, overlooking Vila Nova da Gaia, across the Douro from Porto, was founded in 1775. The period of activity considered here continues through to the mid-nineteenth century.


28. VALLE PÉREZ, Xosé Carlos , and Jorge Rodrigues, eds. El arte románico en Galica y Portugal. / A arte românica em Portugal e Galiza. La Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, and Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2001. Folio ( x cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 271 pp., profuse with high quality illus., about half in color. Text in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. ISBN: 84-89748-81-0. $65.00
Texts by Isidro G. Bango Torviso, Manuel Luis Real, Joaquín Yarza Luaces, Mário Jorge Barroca, José Carlos Valle Pérez, Jorge Rodrigues, Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras, and Maria Adelaide Miranda.


29. VILAR, Emílio Rui, Jorge Moder, Helena de Freitas, et al. Amadeo de Souza Cardoso: diálogo de vanguardas [Avant-Garde Dialogues]. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2006. Very lge. 4° (29.6 x 24.1 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 547 pp., (2 ll.), profusely and nicely illustrated, mostly in color, bibliography. Text in Portuguese and English. ISBN: 972-37-1161-5. $130.00
Massive exhibition catalogue. This work was produced in a co-edition with the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. The issues are identical, except for the imprints and ISBNs (that for the copies bearing the Gulbenkian imprint is 972-635-185-6). The Gulbenkian issue, which was listed in our Recent Portuguese Publications Bulletin 55, is now out-of-print.


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