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José António Falcão, Ph.D., is a reputed Portuguese art historian, museum curator and educator. Born Lisbon 1961, he graduated in History of Art, Architecture and Museology. ==A passion: monuments, museums, works of art== Leading expert in the field of religious art, Prof. Falcão is the head the Departamento do Património Histórico e Artístico da Diocese de Beja (Department of Historical and Artistic Heritage of the Diocese of Beja) since its foundation, in 1984. “Conservador-chefe de museus” (museums chief curator), he was also the organizer of the diocesan museums network of Beja. As a museum professional, he worked in relevant institutions as Museu de Évora, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian and was successively curator and director of Casa dos Patudos, the José Relvas former residence in Alpiarça, the most important house museum in Portugal. José António Falcão is a well known authority in the field of Christian heritage. He conducted many researches in the study of Southern Portugal churches and treasures and is one of the first researchers of the “modern generation” of Portuguese art historians to study, theorize and disseminate the magnificent sacred art of the Alentejo – the area between the Tagus River and the Algarve. He dedicated major publications to this matter, as ''As Vozes do Silêncio'' (''The Voices of Silence'') (), ''Entre o Céu e a Terra'' (''Between Earth and Sky'') () and ''As Formas do Espírito'' (''The Shapes of the Spirit'') (), which made school in Portugal and abroad. Other essays launched bridges between Eastern and Western spiritual traditions and their reflections on aesthetic and plastic phenomena. His pioneering contributions to the scientific study of the artistic civilization of the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula gave the basis to preserve a large number of monuments and works of art before sparsely disseminated. Great connoisseur of Catholic Church art and architecture, José António Falcão is widely considered one of the "fathers" of the religious heritage movement in Portugal, disseminated over the past decades through publications, exhibitions, courses, conferences, regular collaborations in the media and many other ways. He has also played a very significant role in training young curators and conservators at Portuguese and Spanish universities. Prof. José António Falcão is a corresponding member of the Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes (National Fine-Arts Academy) and Academia Portuguesa da História (Portuguese Academy of History). During many years he acted as president of the Real Sociedade Arqueológica Lusitana (Royal Lusitanian Archaeological Society). He is now chairman of the Associação Portuguesa de Museus da Igreja Católica (Portuguese Association of Catholic Church Museums) and deputy general secretary of ''Europae Thesauri''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「José António Falcão」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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