Elsa Filipe de Andrade Murta
Member of the working group – Conservator-restorer and head of the Division of Polychrome Sculpture at the Institute of José de Figueiredo
Elsa Murta received a Bachelor in Conservation and Restoration of polychrome sculptures at the Instituto de José de Figueiredo, in Lisbon, in 1986. In2011 she got a Master Degree in Decorative Arts by the Catholic University of Portugal with a specialization on gilded wood decoration (“talha dourada”).
Currently she is developing a Ph.D. degree at the University of Lisbon, studying the influence of the Flemish art in the Portuguese sculpture between the 16th and 17th centuries, on the collection of the Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon.
Her professional career began in 1984, with the curricular internship as conservator restorer in the Division of Sculpture of theInstituteofJosé de Figueiredo, where she currently is coordinator of the division of conservation and restoration of sculpture in polychrome wood support and tutorials curricular internship students from national and foreign universities.
She participates regularly to seminars, congresses and lectures in the field of conservation and restoration of polychrome sculpture and arquitectural decoration. She is author of 16 written papers, either individual or in co-authorship published in peer reviews, chapter of books, preprints and post prints of congresses in the field of her specialization, the conservation and restoration of polychrome sculpture.