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Nuno Senos is Professor of Early Modern Art and Architecture, Chair of the Art History Department, and Full Researcher of the Institute of Art History at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research interests span the architecture of Early Modern Portugal and its overseas possessions as well as the impact of empire on art consumption in Portugal in the 16th century. He has published on the Royal Palace of Lisbon (Paço da Ribeira), on the ducal palace of Vila Viçosa, and the historiographic and artistic construction of the memory of the voyage of Vasco da Gama (1498), among others. He has participated in numerous international projects currently including PALAMUSTO, Research & Training for the Palace Museum of Tomorrow, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (ITN 861426).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Nuno Senos

Citation names

  • Senos, Nuno

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7812-F421-A176
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4759-5681

Email addresses

  • nsenos@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa / FCSH / DHA Av. de Berna 26C, 1069-061, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Art history

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2000/09/01 - 2006/05/01
Concluded
 History of Art (Doctor of Philosophy)
New York University Institute of Fine Arts, United States
"Franciscan Art and Architecture in Colonial Brazil, 1650-1800" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1996 - 2000
Concluded
 História da Arte (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"O Paço da Ribeira 1501-1581" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 máxima
1992 - 1996
Concluded
 História, variante de História da Arte (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/11/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2023/10/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2008/01/01 - 2015/12/31 Carreiras / Categorias Subsistentes Council on International Educational Exchange Lisbon Study Center, Portugal
Council on International Educational Exchange Lisbon Study Center, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/03/01 - Current Chair of the Art History Department Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2022/02/28 Deputy Chair of the Art History Department Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2021 - 2024 Conectar los Trópicos: practicas letradas del clero y circulación cultural em los espacios del imperio portugués de la Edad Moderna
PID2020-113602GB-I00
Researcher
Universidad Complutense de Madrid Departamento de Historia Moderna e Historia Contemporánea, Spain
 Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Ongoing
2020 - 2024 Layers. Na espessura das paredes e na profundidade do solo / In the width of the walls, in the depth of the soil
PTDC/HAR-HIS/5288/2020
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/11/01 - 2023/10/31 PALAMUSTO, Research & Training for the Palace Museum of Tomorrow
ITN 861426
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2017 - 2021 Trópicos letrados: Textos e Prácticas Eruditas del Clero en los Espacios del Imperio Portugués de la Edad Moderna (1580-1750)
HAR2014-52693-P
Researcher
Universidad Complutense de Madrid Departamento de Historia Moderna e Historia Contemporánea, Spain
 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España
Concluded
2015/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Strategies of Self-Representation. Noble Residences in the Low Countries During the Sixteenth Century (1477-1635)
BOF C14-15-046
Researcher
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Departement Architectuur, Belgium
 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Departement Architectuur
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2016/12/31 The Quest for an Appropriate Past. Literature, Architecture, Art and the Creation of National Identities in Early Modern Europe (c.1400–1700)
KNAW 2014-2016
Researcher
Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Netherlands
Concluded
2010/04/01 - 2015/03/31 Palatium - Court Residences as Places of Exchange in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700
08-RPN-073
Researcher
European Science Foundation, France
Concluded
2009 - 2013 All his Worldly Possessions, The Estate of the 5th Duke of Bragança, D. Teodósio I
PTDC/HAH/71027/2008
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Nuno Senos; Ángela Barreto Xavier. Portugal, uma retrospectiva: 1498. Tinta da China | P{\'u. 2019.
  2. Senos, Nuno; Joana Estorninho de Almeida. O Torreão Poente. Museu de Lisboa - EGEAC. 2019.
    Published
  3. Jessica Hallett; Nuno Senos. De todas as partes do Mundo. Tinta-da-China / CHAM. 2018.
  4. Senos, Nuno. O Paço da Ribeira, 1501-1581. Lisboa, Portugal: Editorial Notícias. 2002.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Senos, Nuno; Alberto, Edite; Departamento de Filosofia (DEF); Centro de Humanidades (CHAM - FCSH/NOVA). "Os espaços do poder em Lisboa nos séculos XV e XVI". Portugal: Ciudad Autonoma de Ceuta – Consejería de Educación y Cultura; Câmara Municipal de Lisboa - Direção Municipal de Cultura/Departamento de Património Cultural,
  2. Senos, Nuno. "In the prince’s absence (Portugal, 15th-16th centuries)". In Maintaining the Presence of the Prince. Management of Royal Geographies (14th-19th Centuries), edited by Eloy Hortal, José; Hurx, Merlijn; Ringot, Benjamin. Turnout, Netherlands: Brepols, 2025.
    Under revision
  3. Senos, Nuno; Silva, Hélia Cristina Tirano Tomás da. "Managing the king's works in Early Modern Portugal". In The Institutions Related with the Ruler´s Works as Key Elements of the European Courts (XIVth-XVIIth centuries), edited by Hurx, Merlijn; Eloy Hortal, José. Turnout, Netherlands: Brepols, 2024.
    In press
  4. Senos, Nuno. "The apartment system in Portugal (1400-1600)". In Court Residences as Places of Exchange in Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Europe 1400-1700, edited by De Jonge, Krista; Hoppe, Stephan. Turnout, Netherlands: Brepols, 2024.
    Accepted
  5. Nuno Senos. "Prefácio". edited by Chaves, { Duarte Nuno. Letras Lavadas, 2020.
  6. Nuno Senos; Luisa Elena Alcalá. "Artistic experiences in the Iberian world, sixteenth-seventeenth centuries". In The Iberian World, 1450-1820, edited by Fernando Bouza; Pedro Cardim; Antonio Feros, 449-471. United States: Routledge, 2020.
    Published
  7. Senos, Nuno. "Lisboa no tempo de São Francisco Xavier". In Missão, Espiritualidade e Arte em São Francisco Xavier, 34-49. Lisbon, Portugal: Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, 2020.
    Published
  8. Luisa Elena Alcalá; Nuno Senos. "Artistic experiences in the Iberian world, sixteenth-seventeenth centuries". edited by { Bouza, 449-472. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
    doi.org/10.4324/9780429283697
  9. Nuno Senos. "A ampliação do Paço de Vila Viçosa". edited by Jessica Hallett; Nuno Senos, 109-134. Tinta-da-China / CHAM, 2018.
  10. Nuno Senos. "Conclusão". In De todas as partes do mundo, edited by Jessica Hallett; Nuno Senos, 355-375. Tinta-da-China / CHAM, 2018.
  11. Nuno Senos. "An Appropriate Past for Renaissance Portugal". In André de Resende and the city of Évora, edited by Konrad Ottenheym; Karl Enenkel, 127-150. Brill, 2018.
    10.1163/9789004378216_007
  12. Nuno Senos. "La dissolution de la frontière: Le problème de l'exotique au Portugal au XVIe siècle". In Exogenèses. La Production d’Objets-Frontière dans l’Art en Europe depuis 1500, edited by Crest, {Sabine du, 111-124. Paris, France: Eds de Boccard, 2018.
  13. Nuno Senos. "The classical ideal in Portugal and the Portuguese world. From Lisbon to China". In The Companions to the History of Architecture. Vol. I. Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, edited by Alina Payne, 624-652. New York, United States: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
    Published • 10.1002/9781118887226.wbcha022
  14. Nuno Senos. "The empire in the duke's palace. Global material culture in sixteenth-century Portugal". In The Global Lives of Things: The Material Culture of Connections in the Early Modern World, edited by Anne Gerritsen; Giorgio Riello, 128-144. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2015.
    Published • 10.4324/9781315672908
  15. Nuno Senos; Edite Alberto. "Os espaços do poder em Lisboa nos séculos XV e XVI". edited by Teixeira, {Andr{\'e, 69-74. Ciudad Autonoma de Ceuta – Consejer{\'i, 2015.
  16. Nuno Senos; Edite Alberto. "Os espaços de poder em Lisboa nos séculos XV e XVI". In Lisboa 1415 Ceuta: Historia de Dos Ciudades / História de Duas Cidades, edited by Teixeira, André; SIlva, Rodrigo Banha da, 69-75. Ciudad Autonoma de Ceuta and Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, 2015.
    Published
  17. Nuno Senos. "Visiting the king in Lisbon". In Beyond Scylla and Charybdis. European Courts and Court Residences outside Habsburg and Valois/Bourbon Territories, 1500–1700, edited by Johannsen, {Birgitte B{\o; Ottenheym, konrad, 23-33. Copenhaga, Denmark: The National Museum of Denmark, 2015.
    Published
  18. Nuno Senos; Jessica Hallett. "Gendered space at a ducal wedding (Portugal, 1537)". In Le Prince, la Princesse et Leurs Logis. Manières d’Habiter dans l’Elite Aristocratique Européenne (1450 – 1700), edited by Chatenet Monique; Jonge, {Krista De, 55-66. Paris, France: Picard, 2014.
    Published
  19. Nuno Senos. "Lisbonne: la ville et la mer". In Lisbonne. Histoires, Promenades, Anthologie et Dictionnaire, edited by de, {Oliveira Luisa Br{\'a, 27-68. Paris, France: Robert Laffont, 2013.
  20. Nuno Senos. "Portugal e as artes da expansão. Séculos XV a XVIII". edited by {de Sousa, 10-14. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, 2013.
  21. Nuno Senos. "Azulejaria seiscentista no Brasil". In Um Gosto Português. O Uso do Azulejo no Século XVII, exh. cat., edited by Matos, Maria Antónia Pinto de, 349-354. Lisbon, Portugal: Museu Nacional do Azulejo / Athena, 2012.
    Published
  22. Nuno Senos. "Os lugares dos azulejos". In Da Flandres. Os Azulejos Encomendados por D. Teodósio I, 5º Duque de Bragança (c. 1510-1563), exh. cat., edited by Pais, Alexandre, 30-41. Lisbon, Portugal: Museu Nacional do Azulejo / Fundação da Casa de Bragança / Centro de História de Além-Mar, 2012.
    Published
  23. Senos, Nuno. "Buildings at war: Franciscan architecture in colonial Brazil". In The Arts of South America, 1492-1850, edited by Pierce, Donna, 39-55. Denver, United States: Denver Museum of Art, 2010.
    Published
  24. Senos, Nuno. "As moradas lisboetas de D. Leonor". In Casa Perfeitíssima. 500 anos da fundação do mosteiro da Madre de Deus 1509-2009, exh. cat., edited by Curvelo, Alexandra, 97-102. Lisbon, Portugal: Museu Nacional do Azulejo, 2009.
    Published
  25. Senos, Nuno. "A igreja do convento de São Francisco de Portalegre: história de um edifício". In Igreja e Convento de São Francisco: História do Edificado, edited by Gouveia, António Camões, 18-37. Portalegre, Portugal: Publicações da Fundação Robinson, 2008.
    Published
  26. Senos, Nuno. "The Arts of Brazil before the Golden Age". In Encompassing the Globe. Portugal and the World in the Sixteenth and Seventeen Centuries, exh. cat., edited by Levenson, Jay, 131-137. Washington DC, United States: The Sackler Gallery, 2007.
    Published
  27. Senos, Nuno. "The Art of Silver in Colonial Brazil". In The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820, exh. cat., edited by Rischel, Joe; Stratton, Suzanne, 228-245. Philadelphia, United States: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2006.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Nuno Senos. "O(s) problemas do gosto no inventário de D. Teodósio I de Bragança". Lisboa, 2016.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Senos, Nuno. "History of art doctoral research, 2010-2018". E-Journal of Portuguese History 17 2 (2019): 539-619. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/4fa89cdc-d817-4d4c-979c-809f6f9af074.
    Published • 10.26300/thed-em07
  2. Senos, Nuno. "A arquitectura portuguesa chã antes e depois de George Kubler". Revista Tritão 1 (2012): 1-21. http://revistatritao.cm-sintra.pt/index.php/numero-1/a-arquitectura-cha-antes-e-depois-de-george-kubler.
    Open access • Published
  3. Nuno Senos. "A arquitectura portuguesa chã antes e depois de George Kubler". Tritão - Revista de História, Arte e Património de Sintra 1 NA (2012): 1-21. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/32341018-c9c2-4252-be44-ff7eb0e57e25.
  4. Senos, Nuno. "As artes no Brasil joanino". Anais de História de Além-Mar 8 (2007): 167-179.
    Open access • Published
  5. Senos, Nuno. "João de Castilho e Miguel de Arruda no Mosteiro da Batalha". Murphy 2 (2007): 10-45.
    Published
  6. Alexandra Curvelo; Nuno Senos. "The arts and the portuguese colonial experience". Bulletin of Portuguese-Japanese Studies 13 (2006): 109-112. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/72b78afd-7d97-486a-8a0d-c78b86bb7767.
  7. Senos, N.. "Na esperança de vossa real presença desejada. Art and an absent power in Philippine Lisbon. 1580-1640 | Na esperança de vossa real presença desejada. El arte y un poder ausente en la Lisboa filipina. 1580-1640". Reales Sitios 158 (2003): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-61149595870&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  8. Senos, Nuno. "‘Na Esperança de Vossa Real Presença Desejada’. El Arte y un Poder Ausente en la Lisboa Filipina. 1580-1640". Reales Sitios 158 (2003): 48-61.
    Published
  9. Senos, Nuno. "A Coroa e a Igreja na Lisboa de Quinhentos". Lusitania Sacra 15 (2003): 97-117.
    Published
Report
  1. Senos, Nuno. 2020. Palácio Almada-Carvalhais. Estudo Histórico-Arquitectónico.
  2. Senos, Nuno. 2019. A acrópole de Ourém - Estudo Historico-Arquitectónico.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Neto, André Filipe Carvalho Gomes. ""Se bem me quer João, suas obras o dirão": Aproximações ao conceito de Obras de Majestade de D. João V". Master, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/27773.
  2. Moás, Ana Cardoso Maia. "Afonso de Albuquerque and the consumption of material culture in the Indian Ocean : 1506-1515". Master, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/18410.
  3. "Franciscan Art and Architecture in Colonial Brazil, 1650-1800". PhD, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, 2006.

Other

Other output
  1. Historiographie de l'art au Portugal. construction, expérience et actualité de la discipline. Um débat entre Luís Urbano Afonso, Mariana Pinto dos Santos, Nuno Senos, Raquel Henriques da Silva, Luís de Moura Sobral, mené par Joana Cunha Leal. 2021. Mariana de Lemos Pinto dos Santos; Leal, Joana Cunha; Senos, Nuno; RAQUEL HENRIQUES DA SILVA; Luís de Moura Sobral; Luís Urbano Afonso. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/17a0ad42-7bba-4e4b-8a89-217ce9d13f12, https://journals.openedition.org/perspective/22169.
    https://doi.org/10.4000/perspective.22169
  2. A Coroa e a Igreja na Lisboa de quinhentos. No Portugal moderno, as relações entre a Coroa e a Igreja resolveram-se entre momentos de concorrência em que as duas formas de poder competiram pela primazia no palco das tensões políticas, e outros de colaboração em que os dois concertaram esforços para a persecução de objectivos comuns. Tais tensões são particularmente visíveis nos edifícios religiosos a que a Coroa se associou durante os reina. 2003. Senos, Nuno. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/4404.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021 - 2025 O Palácio da Ajuda 1755-1836
Supervisor
2020 - 2025 Igrejas salão em Portugal (c. 1500-c.1600)
Supervisor
2020 - 2024 Massed Display of East Asian Porcelain and Lacquer in European Palace Architecture 1550-1800
Supervisor
2020 - 2024 Water and the Palace in Early Modern Europe
Supervisor
2017 - 2023 Laços de poder. Os Frias, uma família de arquitetos no Portugal dos séculos XVI e XVII
Supervisor
 História da Arte (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2017 - 2023 Arquitectura setecentista no Alentejo. Do civil ao religioso: entre a tradição e a renovação
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020 - 2022 A Quinta da Fidalga no Seixal
Supervisor
2019 - 2022 O Convento de Santa Maria de Chelas
Supervisor
2017 - 2020 A igreja de São Francisco em Goa
Supervisor
2017 - 2020 O convento de Nossa Senhora da Conceição em Beja e a invenção do manuelino
Supervisor

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/05 - 2019/09 The West Tower, a symbol of Lisbon, exhibition, Museu de Lisboa - Torreão Poente (2019/05 - 2019/09)
Exhibition (President of the Organising Committee)
 Museu de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/10/15 - 2015/10/17 Early modern Middle Ages: references to the heroic chivalric past in early modern historiography and epics, and the use of 'archaic' military castle elements in noble and princely residences (co-organized with Konrad Ottenheym and Karl Enenkel) (2015/10/15 - 2015/10/17)
Conference
 Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
2012/09 - 2013/06 Da Flandres. Os Azulejos Encomendados por D. Teodósio I, 5º Duque de Bragança (c. 1510-1563), exhibition (2012/09 - 2013/06)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Portugal

Fundação da Casa de Bragança, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/06 - Current Le lever du duc: the sacralization of everyday life Privacy and Space – Theory and Practice
2022/12/03 - 2022/12/03 Panel respondant. "Mapping the Early Modern Court Residence in Europe: Functionality and Representation”
Conference
 Renaissance Society of America Virtual 2022
Renaissance Society of America, United States
2022/11/15 - 2022/11/16 Los palacios y la administración de las obras reales (Portugal en la Edad Moderna
Conference
 El origen de los Sitios Reales en las coronas ibéricas (ss. XIV-XVI): de espacios cortesanos a redes de poder
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
2022/06/03 - 2022/06/06 "La maison noble au Portugal au XVIème siècle" and "Le baroque au Brésil"
Conference
 Festival d’Histoire de l’Art, Château de Fontainebleau
Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, France
2021/11/19 - 2021/11/19 "What's (not) in a name", paper presented at online conference
Conference
 Manueline Architecture as Narrative: Constructing and Deconstructing a Concept
University of California Berkeley, United States
2021/09/15 - 2021/09/17 In the prince's absence (Portugal, 15th-16th centuries)
Conference
 Maintaining the Presence of the Prince. Management of Royal Geographies (14th-19th Centuries)
Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, France

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - 2023 Journal of Early Modern History Brill
2022 - 2022 BSAA Universidad de Valladolid
2021 - 2021 Royal Studies Journal Winchester University Press
2020 - 2020 Opus Incertum. Rivista di Storia dell’Architettura Università degli Studi di Firenze

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/06/11 - 2024/06/12 Architecture et Mobilier de Cour vers 1500 en Europe Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, (CESR, Tours), Laboratoire de Mécanique Gabriel Lamé (Orléans-Tours) and Laboratoire en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication PRIM (Tours)
2024/02/22 - 2024/02/23 Glazed Ceramics in Cultural Heritage (GlazeArt) Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC), Vicarte (FCT NOVA), Museu Nacional do Azulejo

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020 - 2021 For the city of Ourém in preparation for the restoration of the city's medieval acstle Câmara Municipal de Ourém, Portugal
2019 - 2020 In preparation for the conversion of hisotircal palace into a hotel; report submitted to National Heritage Institute Atelier Pedro Reis, arquitectura, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2020 - 2020 member of international selection committee for Director of the Monastery of Belém, Lisbon
Evaluator
 Republica Portuguesa Ministério da Cultura, Portugal Republica Portuguesa Ministério da Cultura

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2021 - 2021 Visita Guiada Ourém
2018 - 2018 Visita Guiada Olivença