Raquel Henriques da Silva
Teaching and academic key responsibilities
Associate Professor at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL), Department of Art History.
Director of the Instituto de História de Arte (Institute of History of Art), FCSH-UNL,
since 2010.
Head of the Master in Museology, FCSH-UNL.
Area of scientific activity
19th and 20th centuries visual arts
Urbanism and architecture
Museology and artistic heritage
Research
Principal investigator of the following research projects:
-Sources for the History of Art Museums in Portugal (2010-2013). Funded by the
Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/EAT-MUS/101463/2008)
-Lx Conventos - From sacred city to secular town. The extinction of religious orders and
the dynamics of urban transformation in the nineteenthe century Lisbon (2013-2015).
Funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/CPC-HAT/4703/2012)
External
Former director of the Museu do Chiado- Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea
(National Museum of Contemporary Art), from 1994 to 1997.
Former director of the Instituto Português de Museus (Portuguese Institute of
Museums), from 1997 to 2002.
Former member of the board of directors of the Serralves Foundation, representing
the Ministry of Culture (2000-2006).
Scientific coordinator of the Lisbon’s historical centre candidacy for World Heritage,
later participating in the Working Group, which outlined the Strategic Plan for the
Baixa-Chiado.
Member of the National Council for Culture, in the Museums’ Section
Publications (selection):
Author of research and dissemination studies on the fields of urbanism and
architecture (19th-20th century), visual arts and museology
Cascais. Lisbon, Presença, 1988
Aurélia de Sousa. Lisbon, Inapa, 1991
Carlos Botelho. Lisbon, Presença, 1995
José de Almada Negreiros: Modernism in the Visual Arts’ in Portuguese Modernisms.
Multiple Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts. Ed. By Steffen Dix and
Jerónimo Pizarro. Legenda, Modern HUmanities Research Association and Maney
Publishing, 2011: 69-89
Publications in co-authorship (selection):
Lisboa de Frederico Ressano Garcia, 1874-1909. Lisbon, Câmara Municipal/ Fundação
Calouste Gulbenkian, 1989.
Eduardo Viana, ami des Delaunay. Europália-Portugal 91, Mons,1991; Porto, Fundação
de Serralves, 1995.
Silva Porto, Commemorative exhibition on the centenary of the artist’s death. Lisbon,
Instituto Português de Museus/ Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, 1993.
Museu do Chiado. Arte Portuguesa, 1850-1950. Lisbon, Instituto Português de Museus/
Museu do Chiado, 1994.
História da Arte Portuguesa. Lisbon, Círculo de Leitores, 1995. (edited: Paulo Pereira).
Articles: "Romantismo e naturalismo"; "Sinais de ruptura: «Livres» e Humoristas";
"Percursos da modernidade"; "Os movimentos dos anos 40".
Panorama Arte Portuguesa no século XX. Porto, Fundação de Serralves/Campo das
Letras, 1999 (edited: Fernando Pernes). Article: “Anos 30. O desejo da Expressão,
crítica e ultrapassagem do Modernismo”, pgs. 89- 129.
Século XX. Panorama da cultura portuguesa. Porto, Edições Afrontamento/ Sociedade
Porto 2001/Fundação de Serralves, 2002 (coordinated: Fernando Pernes). Article: “Os
museus: Histórias e prospectiva”, vol. 3, pgs. 65-108.
Communications in scientific meetings (selection):
"Les musées et la recherche sur l´art contemporain" in L´Histoire de l´Art au Portugal.
Paris, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 2001
“O Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea” in Os Museus e a República. Lisboa,
Museu Nacional, 2010. International conference promoted by the Institute of
Museums and Conservation
“George Kubler and the History of Art” in Systems of History: George Kubler’s
Portuguese Plain Architecture. CES- Centro de Estudos Sociais, 2012
Links:
http://unl-pt.academia.edu/RaquelHenriquesdaSilva/About