Reframing: cataloguing azulejo frames Inês Aguiar Az - Rede de Investigação em Azulejo ARTIS – Instituto de História da Arte, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT The present paper aims to analyze the cataloguing of azulejo frames, done for the project Catalogação de padrões da azulejaria portuguesa [Cataloguing Portuguese azulejo patterns], initiated in 2011, at ARTIS Instituto de História da Arte (FLUL), in a partnership with the National Museum of Azulejo. The catalogue can be consulted at Az Infinitum – Sistema de Referência e Indexação de Azulejo (http://redeazulejo.letras.ulisboa.pt/pesquisa-az). The importance of the frame and its independent study, although connected with the study of the patterns that constitute the remaining covering, has been a crucial concept since the beginning of the project. The project has already compiled examples of frames from four centuries of ceramic production. This catalogue allows for a more effective tracking of what azulejos frames were produced and/or applied in Portugal, to see where and when they were applied, as well as, to know the coverings each frame articulates with. As such the cataloguing contributes to a better understanding of how pattern azulejo frames were understood throughout the centuries. In this context, the systematic cataloguing allows the addition and continuous processing of new data in Az Infinitum, stimulating the emergence of new questions and thus contributing to the production of theoretical knowledge, without never losing sight of its object of study: the work of art in situ. Finally, the function of manipulated digital photography and its contribution to a project with such features will also be addressed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Inês Aguiar has a degree in History of Art from the School of Arts and Humanities of the Universidade de Lisboa. She also attends the Master in Arts, Heritage and Restoration Theory in the same institution, where she’s working on a thesis about photography indexation. She also has a Complete Studies Plan in Photography from Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual. Since 2011, she is a researcher from ARTIS – Instituto de História da Arte, where has worked mainly on the project Catalogação de padrões da azulejaria portuguesa and in the development of Az Infinitum – Sistema de Referência e Indexação de Azulejo. Her main fields of study are Photography and Digital History of Art.
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