Publication: Robert Smith: uma viagem inspiradora e uma visão atualizada da arte retabular em Portugal
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Ferreira Queirós, Carla Sofia
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Ediciones Universidad Autónoma de Chile / Enredars-Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Robert Smith é, sem margem para dúvidas, uma das figuras incontornáveis da historiografia artística portuguesa. O seu olhar atento, sensibilidade, capacidade de análise e paixão pelo que fazia, foram fundamentais para o estudo da arte da talha retabular em Portugal e nos seus territórios. Das inúmeras viagens que realizou em Portugal e no Brasil, de que resultaram os inventários que nos legou, ressaltam importantes considerações, a primeira das quais, o papel crucial da arte da talha no contexto do território português continental, ilhas e transatlântico da época.
A sua motivação, a que se juntou a de outros tantos investigadores, tem servido de base a um crescente número de trabalhos académicos, dissertações e teses, de ambos os lados do atlântico, que nos tem permitido, aos poucos, escrever a história da arte da talha em Portugal, tarefa esta começada há seis décadas por Robert Smith, e longe de estar concluída.
Robert Smith is, without a doubt, one of the unavoidable figures of Portuguese artistic historiography. His attentive look, sensitivity, ability to analyze and passion for what he did were fundamental for the study of the art of altar-piece carving in Portugal and its territories. Of the numerous trips he made in Portugal and Brazil, which resulted in the inventories he bequeathed us, important considerations stand out, the first of which is the crucial role of the art of carving in the context of mainland Portugal, islands and transatlantic at the time. His motivation, along with that of many other researchers, has served as the basis for a growing number of academic works, dissertations, and thesis, on both sides of the Atlantic, which have allowed us, little by little, to write the history of art carving in Portugal, a task begun six decades ago by Robert Smith, and far from being completed.
Robert Smith is, without a doubt, one of the unavoidable figures of Portuguese artistic historiography. His attentive look, sensitivity, ability to analyze and passion for what he did were fundamental for the study of the art of altar-piece carving in Portugal and its territories. Of the numerous trips he made in Portugal and Brazil, which resulted in the inventories he bequeathed us, important considerations stand out, the first of which is the crucial role of the art of carving in the context of mainland Portugal, islands and transatlantic at the time. His motivation, along with that of many other researchers, has served as the basis for a growing number of academic works, dissertations, and thesis, on both sides of the Atlantic, which have allowed us, little by little, to write the history of art carving in Portugal, a task begun six decades ago by Robert Smith, and far from being completed.




