Rafaela Xavier holds a Master’s degree in Art and Heritage (2020) from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, with the dissertation Catalogação de azulejos hispano-mouriscos em Portugal: o Palácio Nacional de Sintra como estudo de caso (Cataloguing Hispano-Moresque azulejos in Portugal: the National Palace of Sintra as a case study).

She was awarded a PhD scholarship by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) to develop a thesis on 15th and 16th azulejos applied in Portugal. She is a member of ARTIS – the Art History Institute of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) and of Az – Azulejo Research Network, where she works on the projects Az Infinitum – Azulejo Indexation and Referencing System and Cataloguing Portuguese Tile Patterns. Her research focuses mainly on patterned azulejos.

E-mail: rsvx@campus.ul.pt

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