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Silvia Bottura Scardina. Completed the Laurea Magistrale in Scienze e Tecnologie per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali in 2016/12/17 by Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali and Laurea in Conservazione e Restauro del Libro e del Documento in 2013/03/17 by Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Is Colaborador externo in Universidade de Évora Centro Interdisciplinar de História Culturas e Sociedades and Investigador colaborador in Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes. Published 2 articles in journals. Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s). In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Infrared reflectography; Incunabulum; Underprintings; Book of Hours; Chemical analysis; Incunabula; Illuminations; Material characterisation; Image Processing; Liturgical music books; Arquivo Distrital de Évora; Book deterioration; Technical Photography; Printed books; Gothic sculptures; France; Iconographical studies; Art patronage; Paris.; MATLAB; Digital reconstructions; Early printed books; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Silvia Bottura Scardina

Citation names

  • Bottura Scardina, Silvia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C41C-05D5-C3D7
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3566-5921

Email addresses

  • scardina@uevora.pt (Professional)
  • silvia.bottura@um.edu.pt (Professional)
  • scardina@uevora.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 936041821 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes. Largo da Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes, 1249-058 , Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/09 - 2022/07/18
Concluded
 Ciências da Arte (Doutoramento)
Major in Heritage Science
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
"The technique of book illuminating in the 16th-century Book of Hours: a multidisciplinary study of the materials, technique and artistic influences in Hardouyns incunabula (1500-1540)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Maxima cum Laude
2016/12/17
Concluded
 Scienze e Tecnologie per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Laurea Magistrale)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Italy
"The technique of illumination in the transition from the manuscript to the incunabulum. A case study from the Public Library of Évora" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Maxima cum laude
2013/03/17
Concluded
 Conservazione e Restauro del Libro e del Documento (Laurea)
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Italy
"Marginalia e Segni d'Attenzione in Francesco Petrarca" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 108/110
Affiliation

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09/01 - Current Manager of Laboratory, Institute, Museum, Centre or Observatory University of Malta, Malta
University of Malta - Department of Conservation and Built Heritage, Malta

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/10/30 - 2024/01/19 Integrated member Laboratório Hercules Herança Cultural Estudos e Salvaguarda, Portugal
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2023/02/22 Investigador colaborador Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal
2018/01/31 - 2023/02/22 Colaborador externo Universidade de Évora Centro Interdisciplinar de História Culturas e Sociedades, Portugal
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Portugal
2013/03/21 - 2013/12/20 Volunteer Librarian Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Italy
2012/06/01 - 2012/10/24 Assistant to the Academical Services Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/09/19 - 2023/08/31 Books, Rituals and Space in a Cistercian Nunnery. Living, praying and reading in Lorvão, 13th - 16th centuries
PTDC/ART-HIS/0739/2020
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/09/01 - 2022/07/30 Cistercian Horizons. Studing and characterizing a medieval scriptorium and its production: Alcobaça. Dialogues between local identities and liturgical uniformity.
PTDC/ART-HIS/29522/2017
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/01 - 2018/12 HERITAS
HERITAS/PD/FCT/BI/2017
 Gobierno de España
2016/02 - 2016/08 Erasmus+
Erasmus+ 2015-2016
 European Commission

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/09 - 2021/09 Bolsa da Reitoria
BD-2017
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
 Universidade de Lisboa
2019/01 - 2019/12 CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO E DE ESTUDOS EM BELAS-ARTES
154788UID
UID/EAT/04042/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2021/03/15 - 2024/03/14 Livros, rituais e espaço num Mosteiro Cisterciense feminino. Viver, ler e rezar em Lorvão nos séculos XIII a XVI.
PTDC/ART-HIS/0739/2020
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2022/09/30 Cistercian Horizons. Studying and characterizing a medieval scriptorium and its production: Alcobaça. Dialogues between local identities and liturgical uniformity.
PTDC/ART-HIS/29522/2017
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Valadas, Sara; Miguel, Catarina; Miriam Pressato; Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Candeias, António; Ana Margarida Cardoso. "Estudo Analítico do Retrato de D. João IV". In Pinto para os Tempos a imagen de hum Rey - Contributos para o estudo da pintura de José Avelar Rebelo, edited by Susana Varela Flor; Sara Valadas. Portugal: Fundação da Casa de Bragança, 2023.
    In press
Conference abstract
  1. Coutinho, Mathilda; Ruivo, Andreia; João Pedro Botelho Veiga; Miguel, Catarina; Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Luis Dias; Sara Valadas; et al. "Characterization of 19th century ceramic objects and paint materials produced by the Portuguese Royal Family". Paper presented in Glazeart2024, Lisbon, 2024.
    Published
  2. Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Nogueira-Alves, Alice; Miguel, Catarina; Themudo-Barata, Filipe. "The Extended Atelier of the Late Middle Ages: The Artisanal Reorganisation in Incunable Workshops of the Late-15th-Century Paris". Paper presented in II International Congress for Young Researchers of the Middle Ages, Évora, 2019.
    Accepted
  3. Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Miguel, Catarina; Nogueira-Alves, Alice; Themudo-Barata, Filipe. ""Retouching" IR Images: An Innovative method for improving IR images with MATLAB for underprintings recovery". Paper presented in RECH5 – REtouching Cultural Heritage, Urbino, 2019.
    Accepted
  4. Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Nogueira-Alves, Alice. "Understanding the Decoration to the Renaissance French Printed Book of Hours: A Multidisciplinary Study from Engravings to Illuminations in Hardouyns’ Incunabula". Paper presented in EnIAD – Encontro de Investigação em Arte e Design, Lisbon, 2019.
    Accepted
  5. Bottura Scardina, Silvia. "“Architecturalization” of the Parisian print Book of Hours: Philippe Pigouchet and his embellishing borders". Paper presented in The Function of the Medieval Sculpture - ARDS Scholar Day, Utrecht, 2018.
    Accepted
Conference paper
  1. Coutinho, Mathilda; Vilamariz, Catarina; Carvalho, Rosário Salema de; Esteves, Lurdes; Ana Teresa Caldeira; João Pedro Botelho Veiga; Marta Mendes; et al. Corresponding author: Coutinho, Mathilda. "A conservação de azulejos através de uma abordagem multifacetada". Paper presented in Congresso Arquiteturas Brilhantes. Revestimentos cerâmicos do Século XV ao XXI., Lisboa, 2021.
    Accepted
  2. Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Nogueira-Alves, Alice. "Delving into the Illustrations of Patron Saints in the Suffrages: A Means for Identifying the Customers of Hardouyns’ Printed Books of Hours". Paper presented in EnIAD – Encontro de Investigação em Arte e Design, Lisbon, 2019.
    Accepted
  3. Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Nogueira-Alves, Alice. "Iconographical Manipulation and Feminine Patronage in Parisian Printed Book of Hours". Paper presented in Nicolau Chanterene e a prática escultórica no contexto das artes do século XVI, Lisbon, 2018.
    Under revision
Conference poster
  1. Eleni Kouloumpi; Eva Vermeersch; Valadas, Sara; Bottura Scardina, Silvia; A. Moutsatsou; Sylvia Lycke; A. J. King; et al. Corresponding author: Eleni Kouloumpi. "In Situ analysis of paintings attributed to Greek painters of the Munich School". Paper presented in RAA2023 - International Conference on the Application of Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology, 2023.
  2. Catarina Martins Tibúrcio; Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Catarina Pereira Miguel; Valadas, Sara; Ana Cardoso; Barreira, Catarina Fernandes. Corresponding author: Catarina Martins Tibúrcio. ". Assessing the existence of a late-medieval royal scriptorium in Lisbon: a multi-analytical characterisation of 15th-century Portuguese illuminated court manuscripts". Paper presented in TECHNART 2023 - International conference on analytical techniques in art and cultural heritage, 2023.
  3. Milene Gil; Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Ana Cardoso; Manhita, Ana; Costa, Mafalda; Miguel, Catarina; Valadas, Sara. Corresponding author: Milene Gil. "Building up a reference collection of mural paint layers with different pictorial techniques and colorants for material and diagnostic studies". Paper presented in MUNCH 2022 -Understanding Munch and the art at the turno f the centuries between the museum and the laboratory, 2022.
  4. Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Nogueira-Alves, Alice; Themudo-Barata, Filipe; Miguel, Catarina. "The Technique of Illumination in the 16th-century Book of Hours: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Materials, Technique and Artistic Influences in Hardouyns’ Incunabula". Paper presented in Ciência 2019 – Encontro com a Ciência e a Tecnologia em Portugal, 2019.
  5. Bottura Scardina, Silvia. "Os livros de música liturgica do Arquivo Distrital de Évora: Diagnóstico do estado de conservação". Paper presented in Colóquios em Investigação, 2018.
  6. Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Miguel, Catarina; Dias-Barrocas, Cristina; Jacobs, Whitney; Ferreira, Teresa; Fialho-Conde, Antónia; Cid, Isabel; Costa, Sónia; Candeias, António. "The Technique of Illumination in The Transition from Manuscript to Incunabula in Paris: A Case Study". Paper presented in YOCOCU 2016, 2016.
Journal article
  1. Coutinho, Mathilda; Pereira, Silvia; Ruivo, Andreia; Bottura-Scardina, Silvia; Veiga, João Pedro; Geraldes, Catarina; Gil, Milene. "Colours of the Tijomel ceramic manufacture (1941-1992): characterisation of a set of ceramic colourants and glazed tiles from Decormel Materials Catalogue". Conservar Património (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.14568/cp32258.
    Published • 10.14568/cp32258
  2. Mathilda L. Coutinho; João Pedro Veiga; Andreia Ruivo; Teresa Pereira da Silva; Silvia Bottura-Scardina; Maria Margarida R. A. Lima; Carlos Pereira; et al. "Characterization of Tableware from Fábrica de Loiça de Sacavém—Linking Analytical and Documental Research". Minerals (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/min14030324.
    10.3390/min14030324
  3. Silvia Bottura-Scardina; Peter Vandenabeele; Catarina Miguel; António Candeias. "Comparative assessment of two portable Raman spectrometers for the characterisation of historical natural dye lakes". Journal of Raman Spectroscopy (2023): https://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.6501.
    10.1002/jrs.6501
  4. Coutinho, Mathilda; Silvia Pereira; Ruivo, Andreia; Bottura Scardina, Silvia; João Pedro Veiga; Geraldes, Catarina; Milene Gil; Shearman J.. Corresponding author: Ruivo, Andreia. "Colours of the Tijomel Ceramic Manufacture (1941-1992): characterisation of a set of ceramic colorants and glazed tiles from Decormel Materials Catalogue". Conservar Património (2023):
    Accepted
  5. Peter Vandenabeele; Catarina Pereira Miguel; Anastasia Rousaki; Silvia Bottura Scardina; Mathilda Larsson-Coutinho; Miriam Pressato; António Candeias. "On the use of a zoom lens for remote Raman measurements". Journal of Raman Spectroscopy (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrs.6458.
    10.1002/jrs.6458
  6. Catarina Miguel; Silvia Bottura-Scardina; Carlo Bottaini; Sara Valadas; Antonio Candeias; Francisco Bilou. "The Power of Combining MA-XRF, Infrared Reflectography and Digital Microscopy to Unveil the Production of the 16th Century Illuminated Charter of Évora: What May Be Hidden under a Painted Surface?". Heritage (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage5010015.
    10.3390/heritage5010015
  7. Mathilda L. Coutinho; João Pedro Veiga; Andreia Ruivo; Teresa P. Silva; Eduardo Salas-Colera; Silvia Bottura-Scardina; Augusta Lima; et al. "An insight into the firing conditions of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain through XANES". Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (2022): https://doi.org/10.1039/D2JA00006G.
    10.1039/D2JA00006G
  8. Silvia Bottura-Scardina; Antonio Brunetti; Carlo Bottaini; Catarina Miguel. "On the use of hand-held X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy coupled to Monte Carlo simulations for the depth assessment of painted objects: The case study of a sixteenth-century illuminated printed book". The European Physical Journal Plus 136 3 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01326-x.
    10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01326-x
  9. Bottura Scardina, Silvia; Miguel, Catarina; Themudo-Barata, Filipe; Nogueira-Alves, Alice. "Image Processing methods integrated to imaging and material characterisation for the study of incunabula illustrations". Ge-Conservación 18 1 (2020): 362- -374-362- -374. https://ge-iic.com/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/825.
    10.37558/gec.v18i1.825
  10. Miguel, Catarina; Bottura, Silvia; Ferreira, Teresa; Conde, Antónia Fialho; Barrocas-Dias, Cristina; Candeias, António. "Unveiling the underprintings of a late-fifteenth-early-sixteenth century illuminated French incunabulum by infrared reflectography". Journal of Cultural Heritage 40 (2019): 34-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2019.05.014.
    10.1016/j.culher.2019.05.014
Activities

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2018/12/05 - Current Ge-Conservación (1989-8568) GEIIC