Modos de ver e de dar a ver os Painéis de São Vicente

• Main Authors: Paula André, Luís Louzã Henriques, Luísa Isabel Martinho, Sónia Apolinário, Rui Reis Costa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de Évora 2013-04-01
• Series: Midas: Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares
• Subjects: National Museum of Ancient Art; information and communications Technology; Saint Vincent Panels; virtual
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/midas/256

The paper Ways of seeing and making visible the Saint Vincent Panels focuses on the idea that articulating historical knowledge with new technologies can be a form of ownership and statement for Portuguese culture and painting. Analyzing and understanding the contexts that established the successive spatial trajectories of the panels inside and outside the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisbon), and the successive artistic variations, as well as the virtual manipulation of the iconic image of panels in the Portuguese landscape or in virtual realities, can show the painting in an expressive way, publicly and globally, and contribute to an effective and affective grasp of the fundamentals of Portuguese culture. The museum, as a space of identity par excellence, should build tools that enhance this understanding, innovating in disclosure systems and working in partnership with agents to produce research on historical knowledge in the area of virtual realities, producing thought-provoking/exciting ways to see and read the painting.