Carla Machado

cf.machado@campus.fct.unl.pt

CARLA MACHADO has both Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Conservation and Restoration, with specialisation in stained-glass and stained-glass painting materials, and a PhD in Conservation Science entitled “From the texts to the laboratory – a study for the preservation of historical grisailles”. Her research has been focused on the materials’ characterisation, technical art history and the degradation of painted glass materials. She is currently working as a researcher focusing her work on the production of stained glass in 20th century Portugal and is currently a team member of the FCT-funded project ChromAz and collaborator on the FCT-funded project MAGICA.

Representative works:

From the texts to the laboratory: a study for the preservation of historical grisailles. Lisbon: Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Faculadde de Ciências e tecnologia. Doctoral thesis in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage – Conservation Sciences.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/163926 

Machado, C.; Oujja, M.: Alves, L. C.; Martínez-Weinbaum, M.; Maestro-Guijarro, L.; Carmona, P.; Castillejo, M.; Vilarigues, M.; Palomar, T. – Laser-based techniques for the non-invasive characterisation of grisaille paints on stained-glass windows. Heritage science, vol. 11, n.º 85 (2023), p. 1-18. ISSN: 2050-7445
URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-023-00917-4 

Machado, C.; Vilarigues, M.; Pinto, J. V.: Palomar, T. – The influence of raw materials on the stability of grisaille paint layers. Applied science, vol. 12, n.º 10515 (2022), p. 1-27. ISSN: 2076-3417.
URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/app122010515

Machado, C.; Machado, A., Palomar, T., Vilarigues, M. –  Grisaille in Historical Written Sources, Journal of Glass Studies, 61 (2019), p. 71-86.
URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26862829 

https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/AF17-D015-4D9B