| Catarina Gersão de ALARCÃO |
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Conservator-restorer of sculpture (Portugal) National Museum Machado de Castro, Coimbra Contact: mnmc.catarinaalarcao@imc-ip.pt,catarinaalarcao@gmail.com Catarina Alarcão graduated in Conservation-Restoration from the New University of Lisbon. She than received a grant from the Ministry of Culture in 1997 and undertook the Corso di Perfezionamento sui restauro dei materialli lapidei in the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro in Rome for 11 months. Since 1998 she works at the National Museum Machado de Castro being the responsible of the workshop of sculpture conservation-restoration. She coordinates internships and training programs, and she designed and coordinated the exhibitions “Esculturas em diálogo” and “Conhecer é conservar” that took place in the same museum. She published “Introdução ao estudo material e à conservação da escultura em pedra e em madeira” [Introduction to material study and to the conservation of sculpture in stone and wood] (December 2002) and has presented several communications of projects developed in the museum and from her private practice.
Papers: Knowing Hodart and His Work The Conservation-Restoration of the Last Supper [Article, in Issue 11, October 2009] |