Art Conservator and Restorer
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Casa dos Vargos, Torres Novas, SantarĂŠm This intervention occured during the first year of the Master Degree in Conservation and Restoration. This house is the Portuguese headquarter of Instituto Europeu do Restauro and at the time, 2009, it had a partership with Instituto PolitĂŠcnico de Tomar. (picture 1).
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The restored areas were the balcony and the stairway handrail. The first thing to do was to remove the beehive from the roof. It had six honeycombs. The bee activity and the honey were causing damage to the roof and our safety had to be guaranteed. (picture 2). 2
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After it, biocide was applied on the stone. (picture 3).
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Then, the balusters were removed (picture 4) and also their iron nails (picture 5). The cleaning was chemical and mechanical and it was made with water, neutral pH detergent and brushes. (picture 6).
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It was followed by the collage of some balusters which were broken. (pictures 7, 8). In the end, the balusters were replaced and the joints were filled with traditional lime mortard. (pictures 9, 10 and 11).
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In the ground floor, the same process was followed. In some parts of the pillars it had to be used compresses to help the cleaning process. It also had alga colonies, which were removed with a small brush and a scalpel. (pictures 12, 13 and 14).
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Sport Lisboa e Benfica with a partnership with Argo, Conservação e Restauro
During this internship, many trophies were chemically and mechanically cleaned. At the same time, the Eusébio Gold Exibition was being settled and required our help. (pictures 15, 16 and 17). To watch the making off the museum, you can go to this website: http://www. slbenfica.pt/pt-pt/museu/home.aspx
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Villa Romana do Rabaรงal, Penela, Coimbra
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In this one year internship, at Villa Romana do Rabaรงal (picture 18) the conservation of the Roman mosaics was made, followed by treatments of conservation and restoration of archeological metals. Firstly, at the archeological place, the sand which covers the Roman mosaics was removed and herbicide was promtly applied in a percentage of 2 %. (pictures 19, 20, 21 and 22)and the plants were cut off (picture 23).
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At the museum, (picute 24) the archeological metals were mechanically cleaned. For a precise cleaning, a binocular magnifier was used. The objects cleaned were made of copper and iron alloys and their typology was various (pictures25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31).
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Igreja de SĂŁo JosĂŠ dos Carpinteiros, Lisboa
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In this 16 th century church, there were eight 18th century tile panels to restore and to conserve (picutres 32, 33 and 34). Some tiles had to be removed from the wall, because they were in risk of falling down, were stored in boxes (picture 35).
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Their mortard was mechanically cleaned (picture 36). The mortard layer was thick and a hammer was used to help its removal. In the end the original tile mark could be seen. (pictures 37 and 38).
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At the same time, broken tiles had to be cleaned so they could be collaged. After the mortard removal, the fractured area was cleaned and Paraloid B72, at 50% was applied with a brush (pictures39, 40, 41, 42 and 43 ).
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After it, the panel could be seated up on the floor, before it went to the wall again (pictures 44, 45 and 46). 45
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Once settled on the wall, it was time to close the joints, with traditional lime mortard, applied with a sponge (picture 47). When it was dry, it was cleaned with a coth. In the end end of the process the fine lines of the joints were able to be seen with more definition. (picture 48)
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The next prodecure was to close the gaps that some tiles had with mortard (picture 49). It was applied with a spatula (picture 50).
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The final prodecure was the chromatics reinstatement . The used colours were the Navy blue, white, magenta, grey and black and the method used was the mimetic (pictures 51 and 52). In picture 53 the final result can be seen.
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Palรกcio Nacional da Pena, Sintra
Palรกcio Nacional da Pena is one of the most beautiful palaces in the country and one of the most visited monuments in Portugal. The intervention took place at Porta do Tritรฃo and at the Northwest facade (picture 54). It started by opening the joints (picture 55).
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It was mainly used a scalp to open the joints (picture 57). The difference can be noted (pictures 56 and 58).
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After it, the tiles were cleaned with a solution of water, neutral detergent and alcohol. Brushes were used to clean the joints and scourers were used to remove the stains. The scalp was used pontually in order to remove the most difficult dirts (pictures 59 and 61). We can compare the area before the cleaning and after it (pictures 60 and 62).
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Moreover, the joints were filled with traditional lime mortard (pictures 63 and 64). Then, the gaps were filled with mortard then polished (pictures 66 and 67).
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