Collections, Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and Its Empire

From the 18th to the 20th century

Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Leonor de Oliveira

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040309469
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Contemporary Art

Focusing on the period between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth century, this edited volume examines the histories of objects, museums, exhibitions, and collections in Portugal or outside Portugal but representing Portugal, or related to it through colonial relationships.

The book highlights the specificities of the Portuguese case, set against a globalised, transnational, and transcolonial context, and provides a precedent for future studies and a dialogue with equivalent studies related to other geographies. The diversity of the cultural, intellectual, and political contexts (imperial, colonial, monarchical, republican, authoritarian) offered by the Portuguese example allows for the exploration of a number of complex case-studies. Chapters study the artistic, collecting, and museological practices in Portugal and in the various geographical contexts of its colonial empire, with particular emphasis on the circulation and connectedness of objects, products, people, and ideas.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, intellectual and cultural history, and imperial and colonial history.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Mapping Visions: Collections, Exhibitions, and Museums in Portugal and Its Empire, from the 18th to the 20th Century
• Part I Artistic and Natural History Collections in the Eighteenth Century: Between Lisbon, Brazil, China, and India
• Part II Exhibiting Identities in the Portuguese Colonial Empire (1860–1999)
• Part III The Displaying of Art and History in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
• Index