António Filipe Pimentel Explained

Honorific Prefix:PhD
António Filipe Pimentel
Birth Date:1959-12-05
Nationality:Portuguese
Education:The University of Coimbra
Occupation:Art historian

António Manuel Filipe Rocha Pimentel (born 5 December 1959 in São Pedro de Alva, Penacova) is a Portuguese academic and art historian currently the director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.[1]

He served as director of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga from March 2010 until June 2019. Prior to this he was the director of the Museu Grão Vasco, in Viseu. Between 2007 and 2009 he was Dean of the University of Coimbra, responsible for the field of Heritage.[2] Between 2020 and 2022 he sat on the board of directors for the World Monuments Fund Portugal.[3]

Career

Academic

Graduating in history (with a specialization in History of Art) from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, in 1986, he then completed his master's degree in Cultural and Political History of the Modern Age in 1991. In 2003 he completed his doctorate in History of Art. He is a permanent lecturer at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra.

An expert in baroque art and historic and artistic heritage, he was awarded the Gulbenkian History of Art Prize in 1991. A corresponding member of both the National Academy of Fine Arts and the Naval Academy, and a member of the Scientific Society of the Portuguese Catholic University, he regularly works with national and international scientific institutions and has published around three hundred titles, in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, UK, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Brazil.

As Dean of the University of Coimbra, he was the scientific coordinator for the university's application for its historical and cultural complex to be given UNESCO World Heritage status.[4]

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

As director of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, António Filipe Pimentel became known for running several successful and innovative communications campaigns.[5] Initiatives such as the project Coming Out. Bringing the Museum onto the streets, which, in 2015, took to the historical neighborhoods of Lisbon replicas of works from its collections of Portuguese and European paintings, helped promote the institution at the national and international level.

In 2015–2016, he organized unprecedented fundraising and crowd-sourcing campaign - Let's Put the Sequeira in its Rightful Place. The campaign mobilized 171 organizations and fifteen thousand individuals to make donations, resulting in the acquisition of the painting A Adoração dos Magos (The Adoration of the Magi, 1828) by Domingos Sequeira.

With the remaining funds from this highly successful campaign, the museum was also able to acquire the paintings Retrato de D. João V e a Batalha do Cabo Matapão (Portrait of King John V and the Battle of Cape Matapan, 1717) by Domenico Duprà in 2016, and A Anunciação (The Annunciation, c. 1430) by Álvaro Pires de Évora in 2018.[6]

Despite initially being appointed by the Minister of Culture Gabriela Canavilhas for his ‘administrative spirit,’ his work at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, which he describes as a quiet revolution,’ broadly changed the general perception of the institution, modernizing it and making it more international, based on a growing network of partnerships, both Portuguese and foreign.[7] The increased dynamism of an intensive and creative program, with the continual organization and presentation of significant exhibitions that bore his stamp (and which he described, in an interview, as ‘moments of voluptuousness’) resulted in a sustained increase in visitor numbers, achieving growth of nearly 100% during his leadership.[8]

Under his direction, the museum initiated a systematic campaign of renovation that changed the public's attitude towards the institution, at the same time as committing to the enhancement of its collections and the development of scientific research.

Having insisted on the need to change the Museum's management model and give it administrative and financial autonomy, as well as physically extending it. He disagreed with ministerial policy for the sector regarding the terms of the new statute for the autonomous management of museums, monuments, and palaces, this led to his reluctance to remain once his service commission had ended, leading him to return to his university career.[9]

On leaving, he published the book MNAA 2010-2019. Para a História do Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (MNAA 2010-2019). For the History of the National Museum of Ancient Art), a compilation of texts that summarised his thoughts on the institution.[10]

In 2016, he was one of 17 international figures working in culture and the arts selected to meet Pope Francis, as part of an initiative with the title ‘Arte luce di Dio,’ and, for the occasion, he gave a speech to the Italian Senate.[11]

Artworks purchased thanks to the Let's Put the Sequeira in its Rightful Place funding campaign

Selected publications

Honours

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020-12-15 . New directors of the Museum and the Modern Art Centre . https://web.archive.org/web/20220606164110/https://gulbenkian.pt/noticias/novos-diretores-para-o-museu-e-cam/ . 2022-06-06 . 2022-06-06 . Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation . bot: unknown .
  2. Manevy . Alfredo . 2010-06-22 . Dez mandamentos do Ministério da Cultura nas gestões Gil e Juca . Cadernos Cenpec . 5 . 7 . 10.18676/cadernoscenpec.v5i7.65 . 2237-9983. free .
  3. 2020-12-10 . António Filipe Pimentel é o novo diretor do Museu Calouste Gulbenkian . Expresso.
  4. News: 2009-01-20 . Intervenção para classificação como Património da Humanidade vai transfigurar cidade - pró-reitor António Filipe Pimentel . RTP - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal . 2022-06-06.
  5. 2017-01-28 . "Lembro-me de chegar ao museu e ouvir os meus passos ecoar nas salas vazias. Agora já se anda em ziguezague" . Visão.
  6. News: 2018-02-02 . Estado português recupera em leilão quadro com quase 600 anos . Jornal de Noíticas.
  7. António Filipe Pimentel: Somos um país absolutamente desguarnecido de elites . Jornal de Negócios.
  8. News: 2017-01-28 . "Lembro-me de chegar ao museu e ouvir os meus passos ecoar nas salas vazias. Agora já se anda em ziguezague" . Visão .
  9. News: Canelas . Lucinda . Artes. O Museu de Arte Antiga quer crescer assim, sem sair do lugar . PÚBLICO .
  10. Book: Pimentel, Antonio Filipe . MNAA 2010-2019 : para a história do Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga . 2019 . 978-989-54485-0-0 . [Portugal] . 1108919330.
  11. Lusa . Diretor do Museu de Arte Antiga participa em delegação que vai entregar manifesto ao papa . RTP - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal.
  12. News: 2016-05-18 . António Filipe Pimentel condecorado pelo Governo luxemburguês . Notícias UC .
  13. News: 2016-09-15 . António Filipe Pimentel condecorado com a Ordem das Artes e das Letras . Notícias UC .

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