O Património Artístico da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Monchique Inventário, Estudo e Preservação

• Autor(a) principal: Pratas, Clotilde Maria Ribeiro do Vale Cruz
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/39590
• topic: Património cultural; Inventário; Museologia geral; Conservação preventiva; Preservação cultural; Museologia e Museografia

The Santas Casas da Misericórdia possess a rich cultural heritage, illustrative of more than 500 years of history. The Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Monchique (SCMM) is also the owner of a varied movable patrimony that had not yet been studied, neither by the institution nor by the União das Misericórdias Portuguesas - Gabinete do Património Cultural. The purpose of this dissertation is to make the inventory of the collection of the SCMM, allowing us to know it in its fullness and, consequently, to lay the foundations for its management, safeguard, and diffusion. Studying in accordance with normative and good museological practices, the inventoried cultural heritage encompasses goods of various categories of art, such as painting, sculpture, photography, goldsmithing, metals, textiles, furniture, epigraphy, equipment and utensils, as well as medical and health, within the supercategory of Science and Technology. These objects can be dated between the XVIII and XXI centuries. Being the XVIII century predominantly constituted by the combined patrimony of the SCMM. In this context, 299 objects were inventoried, which, rather than the intrinsic artistic value, are relevant in their immaterial component to the Institution and to the populations served by it, as testimonies of the past associated with religious worship and the "works of mercy" practiced by the Santa Casa. In addition to describing the process of inventorying this heritage, and laying the foundations for the future development of preventive conservation policy, based on the recognition of the main risk factors. In this dissertation we are, also, going to know the Santa Casa Misericordia de Monchique in its whole, while explaining, at the same time, as a framework, the origins of the Santas Casas and their importance to the communities