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y the Green Lines Institute. Finally, the 8th International Conference on Military Monuments,
dedicated to the theme of “Coastal Fortifications”, was held in Faro in November, organised
by the Portuguese Association of the Friends of Castles (apac), with the support of the University
of the Algarve and this Department.
Finally, a last subsidy was awarded for the completion of the Corpus of Tapestry in Portugal
(14-18th centuries) by Maria Antónia Quina, which represented three years of fact finding
and research work. Another project for the study of tapestry – this time contemporary tapestry
made in Portalegre – presented by Jessica Hallett and to be published in the form of a monograph
entitled Woven Paintings, Tapestry in Portugal, also received the Department’s support.
Archaeology
Subsidies were awarded for fieldwork and research by Portuguese archaeologists, researchers
and specialist institutions, including the continued support given to the “Rabaçal Roman Villa”
project, undertaken by the Association of Friends of the Rabaçal Roman Villa, led by
Miguel Pessoa. Another subsidy was given to Ana Margarida Arruda, of the Faculty of Letters
of the University of Lisbon for the continuation of her research work at the Monte Molião
Roman archaeological site in Lagos. Support was also given to Victor dos Santos Gonçalves,
of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon to continue his “Placa Nostra” research
project into the megalithic schist engravings found in the Alentejo; to Ana Maria Gonçalves
Ávila de Melo for her project “Some Aspects of Bronze Age Metallurgy at Castro de Pragança,
Cadaval”; and, finally, João Luís Cardoso, for his study of the “Pre-Historic Settlement of Outeiro
Redondo (Sesimbra)”, an important archaeological site from the Chalcolithic Period in Portugal.
For the first time, this financial support was assessed by a jury, composed of a representative
from this Department, Luiz Oosterbeek, from the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, and Paulo
Pereira, from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon.
Subsidies were also granted for the holding of two important international academic meetings:
the international cycle of lectures on “Architecture, Mosaics and Society of Late Antiquity
and the Byzantine, in both the East and West. Studies and Protection Plans”, which was
held at the Foundation’s premises at Mértola Archaeological Site and at the Rabaçal Roman
Villa in July 2008, organised by the Portuguese Association for the Study and Conservation
of Ancient Mosaics (apecma); and the 2nd Luso-Brazilian Forum of Urban Archaeology,
which took place at the Faculty of Letters of Coimbra University in October 2008, organised
by the Archaeological Studies Centre of the Universities of Coimbra and Porto, coordinated
by Maria da Conceição Lopes, in association with the Mértola Archaeological Site and
the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
Support for publications in the fields of archaeology, history of art and heritage
Approval was given to four of the 13 applications for support that were received:
Ad Urbem – Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Direito do Urbanismo e da Construção,
Tractatus de Novorum Operum Aedificationibus […] tomos divisus, by Manoel Álvares Ferreira,
an important and previously unpublished treatise, written in Latin in 1750; Imprensa
da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Montagem do Cenário Urbano, by Jorge Alarcão;
Institute of Art History / fcsh – New University of Lisbon, A Torre de S. Sebastião da Caparica,
by Pedro Aboim Inglez Cid; and, finally, the study by Maria da Conceição Rodrigues,
Contribuição para a História Comum de Portugal e Moçambique: O Recinto Muralhado
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Annual Report 2008