“Em demanda da Pintura Medieval Portuguesa”, by Luís Urbano Afonso
This lecture aims to show that the current pre-eminence attributed to painting in the context of plastic arts results from a modern prejudice, not applicable to the Middle Ages, preventing us from seeing, and valuing, other forms of producing two-dimensional images that in that period were considered much more important, as is the case with illumination.
Biographical note
Luís Urbano Afonso. Art Historian. He is a professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon since 1997, where he entered through a public competition, having obtained his doctorate (2006) and his aggregation (2017) at the same institution. He published 38 articles in specialized magazines, 3 works in event proceedings and 37 book chapters. He has published 11 books, 8 of which as (co)editor. He supervised 3 doctoral dissertations and 33 master’s dissertations in the areas of Art History and Art Markets. From 2005 to 2019 he participated in 9 research projects, coordinating two of them (http://www.artis.letras.ulisboa.pt/unidadeID/Merclei.html and http://hebrewilluminationinportugal.weebly.com/).