A pioneer program of historic preservation - Portugal and the Colonies Heritage Monuments

"Estado Novo", the Portuguese dictatorship (1933-1974), as a consequence of its nationalist and colonial ideology, understood the overseas monuments as triumphal testimonies of the national legitimacy in African and Asian colonies. However, after the World War II (1939-1945) and the creation of the United Nations (1945), the Portuguese Empire slowly started to be criticized by the international community. Thus, the political regime began to develop an all-embracing program driven to the colonial monuments preservation and, consequently, to the political Empire maintenance. This strategy was implemented in 1958, with a law that declared the Ministry of Overseas responsible for the historical buildings conservation, classification, inventory and restoration. With this paper, by identifying action lines and agents, we aim to demonstrate how the overseas monuments restoration program was developed in innovative ways

Maria João Vilhena de Carvalho – A Constituição de uma Coleção Nacional. As Esculturas de Ernesto Vilhena

A obra em análise resultou da tese de doutoramento em História da Arte apresentada por Maria João Vilhena de Carvalho, no ano de 2014, à Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. A publicação, datada de 2017, enquadra-se na Colecção Estudos de Museus, uma iniciativa que tem permitido uma imprescindível divulgação de estudos avançados nas áreas dos museus e da museologia. Em linhas gerais, estamos perante uma obra de fôlego que atesta a importância – crescentement..

A capela de Nossa Senhora de Fátima na Igreja de Santo Eugénio em Roma "tão linda ideia patriótica e cristã", 1942-1951

Tese de mestrado, Arte, Património e Teoria do Restauro, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2010A presente dissertação aborda o projecto da capela de Nossa Senhora de Fátima na igreja de Santo Eugénio em Roma, tendo este sido empreendido entre os anos de 1942 e 1951, como forma de homenagear o Papa Pio XII e contribuir para a perpetuação da presença portuguesa na capital do catolicismo mundial. Analisando o desenvolvimento de uma iniciativa concretizada graças a donativos e à colaboração da Igreja Católica nacional com o Ministério das Obras Públicas e Comunicações, e procedendo a leituras iconográficas e iconológicas de uma obra materializada por artistas portugueses, procuramos compreender e enquadrar a capela no contexto político, cultural, artístico e social de então. Enquanto obra de arte total num templo de manifesta relevância, a capela em estudo espelha, intencionalmente, a imagem de um Portugal profundamente devoto, rústico e de doces tradições, que tinha, simultaneamente, uma demarcada capacidade de realização no que toca ao desenvolvimento de empreendimentos artístico-culturais. Trata-se, pois, de um hino laudatório a um passado de grandes glórias de um país que, no presente, procurava afirmar, através de retomas e desenvolvimentos, essa grandeza nacional. Num período marcado pelo reacender da polémica em torno do Papa Pio XII, com a proclamação pontifícia do mesmo como venerável, e por manifestações de orgulho nacional, como foi o caso da canonização de D. Nuno Álvares Pereira em 2009, é fundamental contribuirmos para o enriquecimento da História da Arte de Portugal com o estudo deste testemunho material e memorial.Abstract: The present dissertation focuses on the project of Our Lady of Fátima chapel at the Saint Eugene’s church in Rome, that was undertook between 1942 and 1951, as a way to pay homage to Pope Pius XII and contribute to the perpetuation of the Portuguese presence in the capital of the catholic world. By analyzing the development of an initiative materialized thanks to donatives and the collaboration between the national Catholic Church and the Ministry of Public Works and Communications, and by proceeding the iconographical and iconological readings of a work of art made by Portuguese artists, we aim to understand and frame the chapel in the political, cultural, artistic and social context of that time. As an all-embracing art form in a temple of manifest relevance, the chapel reflects, intentionally, the image of a profoundly devoted and rustic Portugal that has, simultaneously, a well demarcate ability to develop artistic and cultural projects. We approach, in fact, a laudatory hymn to a glorious past of a nation that, in the present, was looking to claim, by reprises and developments, that national grandiosity. In a moment marked by the rekindle of the polemic around the Pope Pius XII, with the pontifical proclamation of his venerability, and by manifestations of national pride, such as the Nuno Álvares Pereira’s canonization in 2009, it’s essential to contribute to the enrichment of Portugal’s Art History with the study of this material and memorial testimonial

O caso pioneiro de São Tomé e Príncipe no panorama da salvaguarda dos monumentos portugueses ultramarinos durante o Estado Novo

O caso da valorização e intervenção patrimonial em São Tomé e Príncipe, durante o Estado Novo, é incontornável. A incontornabilidade do caso de estudo presentemente abordado prende-se, sobretudo, com o pioneirismo adjacente. Isto porque datam do ano de 1958, tanto o decreto que responsabilizou a Direcção Geral das Obras Públicas e Comunicações do Ministério do Ultramar pelo inventário, classificação, conservação e restauro dos monumentos de além-mar, como a primeira experiência centralizada do género: o desenvolvimento do programa de salvaguarda do património arquitectónico de para São Tomé e Príncipe. De resto, na sequência desta missão inaugural, Luís Benavente, o arquitecto responsável pela execução do decreto de 1958, viria a desenvolver, nos restantes territórios portugueses ultramarinos, um vasto e complexo programa de salvaguarda patrimonial.The case of heritage valorisation and intervention in São Tomé and Príncipe, during Estado Novo, is unavoidable. The unavoidability of the case currently addressed relates, mainly, to the adjacent pioneering. This because dates of 1958 both the decree which tasked the General Directorate of Public Works and Communications of the Overseas Ministry to the inventory, classification, conservation and restoration of the overseas monuments, and the first centralized experience of this nature: the development of an architectonic heritage safeguard program to São Tomé and Príncipe. Moreover, following this inaugural mission, Luís Benavente, the architect who was responsible for the execution of the 1958’s decree, would develop, in the remaining Portuguese overseas territories, an extensive and complex program of heritage safeguard

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Comunicação apresentada na Semana do Desporto da AEISCSEM [Associação de Estudantes do Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz]. 17-18 Abril 2017, Campus Universitário Egas Moniz, Caparica, PortugalN/

Both SEPT2 and MLL are down-regulated in MLL-SEPT2 therapy-related myeloid neoplasia

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A relevant role of septins in leukemogenesis has been uncovered by their involvement as fusion partners in <it>MLL</it>-related leukemia. Recently, we have established the <it>MLL-SEPT2 </it>gene fusion as the molecular abnormality subjacent to the translocation t(2;11)(q37;q23) in therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia. In this work we quantified <it>MLL </it>and <it>SEPT2 </it>gene expression in 58 acute myeloid leukemia patients selected to represent the major AML genetic subgroups, as well as in all three cases of <it>MLL-SEPT2</it>-associated myeloid neoplasms so far described in the literature.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Cytogenetics, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and molecular studies (RT-PCR, qRT-PCR and qMSP) were used to characterize 58 acute myeloid leukemia patients (AML) at diagnosis selected to represent the major AML genetic subgroups: <it>CBFB-MYH11 </it>(n = 13), <it>PML-RARA </it>(n = 12); <it>RUNX1-RUNX1T1 </it>(n = 12), normal karyotype (n = 11), and <it>MLL </it>gene fusions other than <it>MLL-SEPT2 </it>(n = 10). We also studied all three <it>MLL-SEPT2 </it>myeloid neoplasia cases reported in the literature, namely two AML patients and a t-MDS patient.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>When compared with normal controls, we found a 12.8-fold reduction of wild-type <it>SEPT2 </it>and <it>MLL-SEPT2 </it>combined expression in cases with the <it>MLL-SEPT2 </it>gene fusion (p = 0.007), which is accompanied by a 12.4-fold down-regulation of wild-type <it>MLL </it>and <it>MLL-SEPT2 </it>combined expression (p = 0.028). The down-regulation of <it>SEPT2 </it>in <it>MLL-SEPT2 </it>myeloid neoplasias was statistically significant when compared with all other leukemia genetic subgroups (including those with other <it>MLL </it>gene fusions). In addition, <it>MLL </it>expression was also down-regulated in the group of <it>MLL </it>fusions other than <it>MLL-SEPT2</it>, when compared with the normal control group (p = 0.023)</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>We found a significant down-regulation of both <it>SEPT2 </it>and <it>MLL </it>in <it>MLL-SEPT2 </it>myeloid neoplasias. In addition, we also found that <it>MLL </it>is under-expressed in AML patients with <it>MLL </it>fusions other than <it>MLL-SEPT2</it>.</p

THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE TOURISTIC VALUE OF PORTUGUESE OVERSEAS MONUMENTS: THE CASE OF ANGOLA (1959-1974)

The present study aimed to evaluate the understanding of the touristic value of Portuguese overseas monuments during Estado Novo, having as case-study the then colony of Angola between 1959 and 1974, years marked by the creation of the Information and Tourism Centre and the fall of the regime. Thus, considering the reality of the metropolis, we aimed to identify and analyse the evolution of tourism in this territory, as well the understanding and use of historic monuments by a nationalist regime as points of touristic interest and legitimisers of the national colonialism. We argue that during two different but totally complementary moments devoted to the relation between tourism and historic monuments of Angola, there was a real understanding of their touristic value. Besides that we claim that the believers of the touristic value of those monuments were very often advocates of the preservation or restoration of their pristine characteristics, an idea that we can affiliate to the thought of António Ferro to whom the success of tourism was extremely dependent on preserving and emphasizing the picturesque and idiosyncratic characteristics of those tourist destinations. To achieve our goals we have identified and analysed some tourism-related periodicals, thematic studies and legislation