Participation of Sónia Duarte (CTC) in the International Congress ‘Times of the Baroque. The table’s scenography’

Sónia Duarte, from the Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication, will take part in the International Congress ‘Times of the Baroque. The table’s scenography’ with the paper ‘Music and Dancing at the Table: Sacred and profane iconography, debuxed and painted, in the long Baroque period in Portugal’ (November 16 at 10.50 am). The congress is a joint initiative of the Cultural Association Castilho and Távora, the Institute of Art History at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the School of Education at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, and the Center for Transdisciplinary Research – Culture, Space and Memory with the support of the Municipality of Vila Nova de Foz Côa.

Over the three days, it is intended to reflect on the place of the Table in the daily and festive life of the 17th and 18th centuries and to debate how the lines of thought of the Baroque are projected into contemporary times. In addition to the talks, the congress will include a programme of Baroque music and visits to the Vale do Côa region, an archaeological site classified by Unesco in 1998 as a World Heritage Site. Click here to see the programme.

The researcher also participated in the ‘Heritage Days: Mural Painting in Montemor-o-Novo’ on October 26. The conference included several papers on the various examples of mural painting in the municipality. Sónia Duarte presented a paper entitled ‘Musical iconography in mural painting in Portugal: the case of the Church of São Tiago in Montemor-o-Novo’. In the end, Sónia Duarte and the other speakers debated the problems and solutions related to mural painting in Portugal and the involvement of communities.