Full Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and integrated researcher at ARTIS-IHA/FLUL.

He was born in Toulouse, France (December 1952), and holds a degree from the University of Lisbon (1974), a Master's degree from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (1982) and a PhD from the University of Coimbra (1992). He specializes in the study of Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque Portuguese painting, as well as in Art Theory and heritage preservation, and is the author of numerous publications in these fields, among which: O Maneirismo e o Estatuto Social dos Pintores Portugueses (1983), A Cripto-História da Arte. Análise de Obras de Arte Inexistentes (2001), A Trans-Memória das Imagens (2007) and O Fresco Maneirista do Paço de Vila Viçosa, Parnaso dos Duques de Bragança (2008), as well as the exhibition catalogues Josefa de Óbidos e o tempo barroco (IPPC, 1991), A Pintura Maneirista em Portugal, arte no tempo de Camões (CCB, 1995) and Rouge et Or. Trésors du Baroque portugais (Paris, 2001). He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Artis and Archivo Español de Arte.

E-mail: vit.ser@letras.ulisboa.pt

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