Carla Alferes Pinto

Personal profile

Research interests

She is a Full researcher for CHAM – Centre for the Humanities at NOVA FCSH (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa). She is head of the Heritage and Memory research thematic line in the same centre. She is a guest lecturer in the History Department of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. With a Masters degree in History of Early Modern Art and a doctorate in History of Art (specialization in Museology and Art Heritage), she leads the project VESTE (“Dressing for court: costume, gender and identity(ies)”) which focuses on the history and cultures of fashion during the early modern period in Portugal. Her areas of interest also encompass the commission, production and use of artistic objects by women during the early modern period; the history and study of everyday objects from a perspective of transformation of material culture and product design; the study of artistic relationships between Portugal and Portuguese India during the early modern period; and the reception, musealization and exhibition of the ‘Indo-Portuguese’ in museums (19th-20th centuries).

Education/Academic qualification

History of Art, Doctorate, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH)

Sep 2009 → 4 Sep 2015

External positions

Visiting Lecturer to the course "Ivories". Postgraduate studies in "Art expert", Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Apr 2010 → Jun 2010

Publisher, Fundacao Oriente

1 Jul 2007 → 30 Jun 2009

Editor "Oriente" Journal, Fundacao Oriente

Apr 2001 → 30 Jun 2009

Lecturer to the courses "History of Art" and "Portuguese History of Art". Design graduation (4 years) (Design), Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Artes de Lisboa

Sep 1998 → Feb 2003

Collections and exhibitions assistant, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea

1 May 1995 → 30 May 1996

Collections and exhibitions assistant, Museu Nacional do Azulejo (MNAz/IPM)

1 Oct 1994 → 30 Apr 1995

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Research Output at NOVA

2 Citations
1 h-Index
12 Chapter
9 Article
3 Conference contribution
2 Book
3 More
- 2 Book/Film/Article review
- 1 Paper

Objetos artístico, aparato e cor carmesim na memória esquecida do casamento da infanta D. Beatriz (1521)

Pinto, C. A., 2018, Casamentos da Família Real Portuguesa: Êxitos e fracassos. Lisboa: Círculo dos Leitores, Vol. 4. p. 169-198 30 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Educación, objetos artísticos y poder: La infanta Beatriz de Portugal (1504-1538) en la corte de Saboya

Translated title of the contribution: Education, Artistic Objects, and Power: Infanta Beatriz of Portugal (1504-1538) in the Savoyard Court Pinto, C. A., 2017, Autoridad, poder e influencia: : Mujeres que hacen Historia. Gallego Franco, H. & García Herrero, M. D. C. (eds.). Barcelona: Icaria editorial, Vol. 2. p. 293-310 18 p. (Historia y Feminismo; vol. 13).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Open Access

File

The Diplomatic Agency of Art between Goa and Persia: Archbishop Friar Aleixo de Meneses and Shah ‘Abbas I

Pinto, C. A., 2017, Global Gifts: The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia. London: Cambridge University Press, p. 150-170 21 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Open Access

'There is nothing in the history of this Convent other than the grand and the precious'. Artistic images and objects as agents of politics and religion: the foundation stone of the Convent of Saint Monica in Goa and the processional standard with the Miracle of the Crucified Christ

Pinto, C. A., 2017, Visualizing Portuguese Power: The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th–18th Cen tury). Krass, U. (ed.). Zurich: Diaphanes, p. 19-48 30 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter