{"id":18243,"date":"2023-03-09T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/duarte-darmas-exhibition-from-the-reed-pen-to-the-drone\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:50:20","slug":"duarte-darmas-exhibition-from-the-reed-pen-to-the-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/duarte-darmas-exhibition-from-the-reed-pen-to-the-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Duarte Darmas Exhibition – From the Reed Pen to the Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duarte Darmas Exhibition – From the Reed Pen to the Drone Galeria de Exposi\u00e7\u00f5es tempor\u00e1rias do Castelo de M\u00e9rtola (M\u00e9rtola Castle temporary Exhibition Gallery)<\/strong>
\n1 to 19 March 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Duarte Darmas Exhibition – From the Reed Pen to the Drone, coordinated by Santiago Macias, establishes a comparison between what Duarte Darmas saw and what can be seen today. How? By using a drone, since the perspectives presented by the draughtsman are an ingenious invention. The exhibition translates into a graphic reading using 16 th -century drawings and current aerial photographs, and an explanatory form for each site, with details regarding the spaces recorded in greater detail.
\nThe project covers the 20 sites along the Alentejo border (Alandroal, Alpalh\u00e3o, Arronches, Assumar, Campo Maior, Castelo de Vide, Elvas, Juromenha, M\u00e9rtola,
\nMonforte, Monsaraz, Montalv\u00e3o, Moura, Mour\u00e3o, Nisa, Noudar, Oliven\u00e7a, Ouguela, Serpa and Terena), and Duarte Darmas recorded 55 localities along the entire border.
\nIn this context, the website www.duartedarmas.com , a film, a book and a travelling exhibition that we now present in M\u00e9rtola, were developed.
\n\u201cThe years 1509 and 1510 certainly marked the life of Duarte Darmas. Son of a court official, he stood out as a draughtsman at the service of King Manuel. Little is known of this servant of the monarch, born in Lisbon in 1465, son of Rui Lopes de Veiros, a squire to the Royal House. The known life of our author is almost limited to a reference to his activity as a draughtsman, with an emphasis on his work surveying fortifications and some information about his own property. The date and place of his death are unknown.<\/em>
\nDuarte Darmas would earn a place in history thanks to this task, which was assigned to him by the king. The monarch commissioned him the task of registering his border fortresses, with a clear intent to make a political statement and mark territory. The survey included detailed data, with conditions, in rods and feet, of the towers and facing walls of the citadels. The draughtsman created a graphic document of great iconographic importance for dozens of border sites, while providing the kingdom’s military command with a piece of enormous strategic importance. (…).<\/em>
\nEach place, \u201ctirado do natural\u201d (‘drawn in place’), was represented with three images (the exceptions relate to places that have no citadels, such as Assumar): two views (the “debuxos”), cinematographically in the field and against the field, and a plan of each citadel (the “prataforma”, or platform) were drawn. The two images were almost always taken from opposite angles, although many examples don’t follow this rule.<\/em>
\nDuarte Darmas indicates the azimuths from which he made the drawings, but these <\/em>data are only approximate. <\/em>Three complete editions of this work have been made, widely spaced over time. Jo\u00e3o de Almeida’s, with very significant text amputations, was the first, in 1943- This was followed by those of Manuel da Silva Castelo Brancos in 1990 and of Jo\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 Alves Dias in 2015<\/em>\u201d
\n(MACIAS, Santiago, Duarte Darmas: do calamo ao drone, M\u00e9rtola, MultiCulti – Culturas<\/em> do Mediterr\u00e2neo, 2021, pg. 5<\/strong>).
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Duarte Darmas Exhibition – From the Reed Pen to the Drone Galeria de Exposi\u00e7\u00f5es tempor\u00e1rias do Castelo de M\u00e9rtola (M\u00e9rtola Castle temporary Exhibition Gallery) 1 to 19 March 2023 The Duarte Darmas Exhibition – From the Reed Pen to the Drone, coordinated by Santiago Macias, establishes a comparison between what Duarte Darmas saw and what… Ler mais Duarte Darmas Exhibition – From the Reed Pen to the Drone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,131,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castel","category-museum-of-mertola","category-temporary-exhibitions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t