We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the 5th volume of the Heraldic Studies series edited by Urte Krass and Miguel Metelo de Seixas, titled “Heraldry in Contact: Perspectiv...
At the next meeting of the Société française d’héraldique et de sigillographie on Thursday, 19 October, starting at 5pm, Nicolas Vernot will be presenting the project to recognise the pract...
From 2 to 8 December, the symposium Seals and Linked Open Data was held as part of the online Linked Pasts 6 conference. The symposium was organised by John McEwan, Associate Director of the Cent...
Just in time for Christmas, we are pleased to announce the publication of the long-awaited third volume of the “Heraldic Studies” series. Under the title “Heraldry in Medieval and Early Mod...
From 2 December to 16 December 2020, the sixth edition of the conference Linked Pasts, organised by the Institute of Classical Studies in London, will be held online. Linked Pasts is an annual co...
It is a convenient coincidence that an event of this thematic scope took place in London, a city that is home to the College of Arms as the oldest authority of heraldry as a century-old tradition...
I am pleased to announce that the first volume of our new ‘Heraldic Studies’ series has now been sent off to the printers and will be published just in time for Christmas! Under the title ‘...
The show Visita Guiada (‘Guided Visit’) by Portuguese journalist Paula Moura Pinheiro is currently the most popular program of Portugal’s public broadcasting channel RTP 2. Every week, a Po...
Charles le Téméraire est connu pour son déploiement de faste représentatif ; la cour de Bourgogne marque l’apogée de la culture de cour au moyen âge. Pour manifester le pouvoir et l’aut...
La « sala dos brasões » du palais royal de Sintra constitue, pour le Portugal, un cas isolé de salle d’apparat au décor héraldique. Ce caractère unique lui a valu une approche historiogr...
Le thème de ce workshop met en évidence l’importance de la connaissance des spatialités dans l’organique fonctionnelle et d’apparat des anciennes résidences royales et aristocratiques e...
When in 1581 king Phillip II of Spain was acclaimed sovereign of the Portuguese Empire as D. Filipe I of Portugal, he spent the first three years in the kingdom in order to reorganize it accordin...
Démoli en 1820, à la suite de l’abandon progressif de la ville de Goa, le palais des Vice-Rois a toujours attiré l’attention des voyageurs, visitant Goa au long des XVIe et XVIIe siècles....
1498 Ludovico il Moro, Lord of Milano, Italy, committed to Leonardo da Vinci the painted decoration of one of the rooms of his court palace, the so called Sala delle Asse. Recent researches, conn...
Depuis la seigneurie de Galéas I Visconti († 1328) les résidences des seigneurs de Milan ont été dotées d’apparats ornementaux, surtout peints, visant à augmenter le prestige des espace...