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This initiative will unite conservation and heritage researchers at NOVA.id.FCT, the National Museums of Arte Antiga and Machado de Castro, the University of Oslo, and the National Trust of Norway. The aim is to study polychrome sculpture from the medieval period in Portugal and Norway (c. 1150–1535). Surviving examples have been investigated within very different research traditions, which pose significant challenges for comparing the long and complex histories of these objects, chiefly their histories of restoration and conservation.
In Portugal, research has been mostly limited to art