Estudo dos vitrais do Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória (Batalha): Caracterização do vidro, decoração e morfologias de corrosão

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, para obtenção do grão de Mestre em Conservação e Restauro Área de especialização: Vitral

Late Quaternary warm marine mollusks from Santa Maria (Azores); paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic considerations

The sub-fossil fauna from the Late Quaternary marine deposits of Santa Maria is made of more than 50 species of gastropods and bivalves, 19 of them collected recently and for the first time in the northern coast of the island (Lagoinhas Bay). The sub-fossil shells are found in deposits of beach sands, situated 2-3 meters above the present low tide. The carbonated sands from the basal part of the succession yield an autochthonous association of borers dominated by the bivalve Myoforceps aristata (Dillwin, 1817). Upwards, the marine sands contain concentrations of beach drift shells, including well-preserved supratidal and intertidal gastropods, among them a large number of Rissoidae. The bivalve fauna is dominated by disarticulated valves of Ervilia castanea (Montagu, 1803), a small infaunal coloniser of mobile sandy substrates. The composition of the fauna is made essentially of West European species, many of them common to the West Coast of Portugal. However, a few "warm guests" with West African or Caribbean affinities were also found, suggesting a close relation with some of the "Tyrrhenian" warm associations found in the Western Mediterranean.

Rediscovery of Leptaxis vetusta (Morelet & Drouet, 1857), a subfossil land snail from the Quaternary of Santa Maria (Azores)

During a recent field work on the southern coast of the island of Santa Maria (Azores) a bulk sample of 37 shells and 25 fragments of Leptaxis vetusta was assembled from Late Pleistocene and Holocene slope deposits outcropping in the area. These specimens are the first of this rare subfossil species to be mentioned since the original descriptions of Arthur Morelet and Henri Drouet (1857). The purposes of our paper are a systematic and biometric description of L. vestuta. For the first time, the original type: locality was localized with accuracy over the southern downslopes of Pico do Facho, between Figueiral and Prainha. The subfossil specimens were collected in slope deposits and detritic fans, overlying a fossiliferous marine deposit situated over the 2-3 m abrasion platform of Praia and Prainha bay. The age and factors associated to the extinction of this species are discussed, including the destruction of the original laurel cover and the colonization by Otala lactea (Muller, 1774), a continental helicid introduced and widespread in Santa Maria.

Estudo de um vitral quatrocentista do Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória, Batalha: caracterização, fenómenos de degradação e processos de limpeza com Líquidos Iónicos

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Conservação e Restauro - Especialização em Vitral

Materials handling in hospitals: An analysis of how the storage and materials handling system can be improved, using the example of Hospital Santa Maria

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

The accounting system of the Hieronymite Monastery of Santa Maria de Belém circa 1833

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Finance from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Verificação das condições higio-sanitárias e técnico-funcionais de alguns estabelecimentos comerciais de géneros alimentícios do município de Vila do Porto, ilha de Santa Maria, Açores

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Tecnologia e Segurança Alimentar

Gestão de pressões em redes de distribuição de água – caso de Santa Maria da Feira

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia e Gestão da Água

À sombra dos príncipes. A heráldica dos Sousas no mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória da Batalha

REDOL, Pedro; GOMES, Saul António (coord.)

Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória - a fundação, o programa, os arquitectos, as fontes de influência

in Varia, Revista do IHA, N.4 (2007), pp.335-353

O Retrato de D. João I no Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória Um novo paradigma de representação

Revista do IHA, N.5 (2008), pp.76-95

Brotherly love and filial obedience: the commemorative programme of the Avis princes at Santa Maria da Vitória, Batalha

This dissertation focuses on a rare 15th century commemorative programme that has thus far received little scholarly attention: the collective monument erected in the Founder’s Chapel, at the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória, Batalha, to house the remains of four Avis princes, members of what would become known as ‘the Illustrious Generation’. A patron is proposed for the commission of this erudite monument - the princes’ eldest brother, king Duarte I - arguing its integration into a broader propaganda programme to glorify the memory of the Avis dynasty founder, king João I. The dissertation then proceeds to discuss various highly innovative features of the monument, such as its pseudo-architectural character, its use of sophisticated heraldry and personal badges, the apparent absence of religious iconography on the tombs and, importantly, the collective nature of the programme, key to its interpretation. Using a semiotic approach, a discussion is also offered on the way the various formal, iconographic and conceptual novelties of the princes’ monument impacted on the 15th century monumental landscape in Portugal. Finally, the monument and the chapel housing it are looked at through the prism of the various readings that successive generations of viewers have projected onto it, from the time of its creation to the turn of the 20th century, in order to offer a more comprehensive understanding of the object as it stands today.

Estudo de uma coleção de vidros arqueológicos dos séculos XVII e XVIII do Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória

Durante uma intervenção arqueológica numa conduta do Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória na Batalha, foram encontrados diversos objetos de vidro e cerâmica dos quais foram escolhidos setenta e oito fragmentos de vidro datados dos séculos XVII- XVIII, com o objetivo de serem estudados e caracterizados na sua composição e a possível união dos fragmentos para a determinação das formas dos objetos, o que não se mostrou possível. Para a caracterização recorreu-se às técnicas de espetrometria de microfluorescência de raios X dispersiva de energias (μ-EDXRF) e espetroscopia de absorção UV‐Vis. A maioria dos vidros são silicatados sodo‐cálcicos, à exceção de dezasseis que são alcalinos mistos e um plúmbico. Identificaram-se dois cromóforos responsáveis pela cor azul, cobalto (encontrado apenas num objeto) e o conjunto cobre/ferro nos vidros azul-turquesa. Da coleção faz ainda parte um objeto com decoração vermelha opaca obtida com um pigmento de cobre. Os vidros com coloração natural (amarelo e verde) devem as suas tonalidades à presença de ferro. Realizou‐se a comparação das composições obtidas, formas e decorações com as coleções do Mosteiro de São João de Tarouca, com dois casos particulares do Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a-Velha, com um caso da Real Fábrica de Vidros Cristalinos de Coina e Real Fábrica da Marinha Grande e ainda com as composições publicadas de vidros venezianos e façon-de‐Venise. Esta comparação permitiu realçar semelhanças e diferenças a nível de composição e formal, entre as diferentes coleções.

Luz e sombra. A estética da luz nas Igrejas de Sta. Maria e da Luz, de Siza e Ando

Dissertação de Mestrado em História de Arte Contemporânea

Veiga Ferreira e a Paleontologia em Portugal

This communication deals with the less known research activities on Palconlology by Octávio da Veiga Ferreira, since just after he became a member of the staff of the Serviços Geológicos de Portugal. These activities lasted for about 25 years (1951-1975, eventually up to 1987). Besides much field and laboralory work, Veiga Ferreira produced (alone or in collaboration} 38 papers. These concern vertebrates, echinoids, pectens and other molluscs, and malacostraca, as well as some papers of a more general or divulgation character. Studied fossils range from Jurassic to Quaternary, and from continental Portugal to Santa Maria Island (Azores), the Madeira Archipel and Angola. Veiga Ferreira is author of much valid work. He generously helped others as well. A bibliography for his paleontological papers is provided.