The symbolism of plants in Portuguese Sacred Art in the 16th and 17th centuries: overlooking the collection of the National Museum of Machado de Castro in Coimbra

ABSTRACT: This article presents some contributions for the decoding and interpretation of plants represented in the collection of Portuguese painting from the 16th and 17th centuries…[Read more]

The “Estudo Geral” is the digital repository of the University of Coimbra. Part of SIBUC, it allows a greater visibility of the scientific production of and researchers. This article aims to verify the frequency of the subject “Trafficking of People” in Master’s and Doctoral theses deposited in the “Estudo Geral” between 2006 and 2016. Thus, i…[Read more]

Framed mainly in the context of Religious Art, particularly in the field of sacred art and iconography, this research had as object of study the Marian iconography in the Portuguese Jesuit space, worship and devotion of the Virgin Mary at Igreja do Colégio de Jesus de Coimbra (Church of the College of Jesus in Coimbra). Based on the analysis from…[Read more]

Cada lugar é percebido a partir do conhecimento que já se tem ou adquire do lugar. A leitura dos espaços é feita quase que inconscientemente, pois as associações são instantâneas. No entanto, não é raro passarmos ou visitarmos lugares e não conseguirmos interagir com o espaço a partir da significância originalmente atribuída. Com o objetivo de a…[Read more]

This research, which methodology uses a qualitative approach due to the type
and objective of the research as a bibliographic and exploratory study, sought to
verify the contribution of Marketing Communication tools to promote cities and their
EPU (acronym in Portuguese for “Urban Public Spaces”), putting together
marketing, communication, pub…[Read more]

This article aims to contribute on reflecting about the strict relation between an object (an image) and the memory, particularly regarding the memory in the news on September 2nd 2015 about the refugee crisis. Every year, Porto Editora (a Portuguese press company) holds a survey with ten words in order to elect the word of the year, and, for…[Read more]

Partindo de uma perspetiva sociodinâmica da memória, onde a recordação depende tanto do momento passado como do presente, e apoiado nos trabalhos de Halbwachs (1994), Changeux & Ricoeur (2001), Bergson (2012), Le Goff (2000), Michel (2016), Baddeley, Anderson, & Eysenck (2011) entre outros, este trabalho propõe reflexões em torno das segui…[Read more]