Apresentação Pessoal

I'm an art historian, specialising in Classical and Late Antique Art, committed to the digital and involved in research, teaching and disseminating information to an academic audience and the general public.

I have been a member of the Património Material e Imaterial (“Tangible and Intangible Heritage" ) research group at the Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar "Cultura, Espaço e Memória" (Transdisciplinary Research Center for Culture, Space and Memory, CITCEM) at the University of Porto since the 2023/2024 academic year.

My academic training began with a degree in History (1987, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - NOVA FCSH). My interest in the visuality of history and understanding the artistic forms and their evolution compelled me to pursue a specialisation in Art History.

Therefore, I completed my master's degree (2007, NOVA FCSH) and my doctorate in History of Late Antique Art (2011, FCSH-NOVA) with a thesis on the capitals of this period of Art History in present-day Portugal. I was awarded a scholarship by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) to accomplish my PhD. In this research, I tried to understand the structural and decorative role of the column, particularly the capital, in architecture and construction. The variety of forms and decorative elements that the capital absorbs, adapting classical elements to new buildings and mental contexts, make this extraordinary piece a testimony of historical and artistic changes.

I was awarded a postdoctoral scholarship by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, FCT (The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) between 2016 and 2022 developing the project: "Decor in Antiquity in Western Hispania (1st to 8th century) - Meaning(s) and Performances: architectural sculpture, mosaics and painting".
The project was supervised by Justino Maciel, professor emeritus at NOVA FCSH and co-supervised by Patrízio Pensabene (La Sapienza, University of Rome), Alexandra Dardenay (Professor of Ancient Art History and Archaeology at the Jean Jaurès University of Toulouse) and advised by Will Wootton (Professor of Roman Art at King's College, London).

I was a secondary school history teacher between 1988 and 2010. In 2008 and from 2010 to 2016, I was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of History of Art at NOVA FCSH teaching subjects in the History of Ancient Art to undergraduate and master's students, as well as delivering some PhD seminars.

Together with students from NOVA FCSH, I developed several projects such as:

Encontrharte (Art History Meetings ); https://encontrharte.wordpress.com

The opusmusiuum: http://www2.fcsh.unl.pt/cadeiras/Opusmusiuum/home.html
a project on Roman mosaics in Portugal;

Palavras Apetrechadas de Asas (“Words with wings”), an audiobook project based on Homer's Odyssey translated by Frederico Lourenço;

Findhart, an entrepreneurship project to create an Art History application.
https://prezi.com/bkwwahakstrt/projecto-de-negocio/

Between February and July 2023, I taught History of Portugal to Tourism Information students at the Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril (Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, ESHTE).

I participated in the ERASMUS and ERASMUS+ teacher mobility programmes in Italy, Spain and Japan. As a member of the AIA (Archaeological Institute of America), I lectured in the USA in 2015; in 2018 and 2019 I was a lecturer for the AIA's Samuel S. Kress programme and gave several lectures in Canada and the USA. I was a Visiting Research Associate at King's College, London, in 2017 and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, in April 2019.

From a wide range of colloquia and publications on the History of Classical and Late Antique Art, especially sculpture and mosaics, I would highlight the book (2019) that I coordinated together with Justino Maciel and in which I took part in two chapters as the author - "Artistic Horizons of Lusitania" https://lusitania.cantoredondo.eu

This book reflects my vision for the History of Art: interdisciplinary, international, multilingual, specialised and comprehensive, visual, digital, dynamic and interactive.

My research interests are Roman mosaics, wall painting and architectural sculpture in the context of architecture.