Publications

Ângela Santos, Vanessa Otero, Márcia Vilarigues. 2025. "Tracing the evolution of artists' materials and manufacturers' choices in painted magic lantern slides". Journal of Cultural Heritage 74, 236-245. [Link] 

Vanessa Otero and Jo Volley, eds. 2025. REDiscover exhibition catalogue "The Art of Madder: Reviving Historical Shades". United Kingdom: Slade Press. Limited edition of 100 copies.

Vanessa Otero. 2023. "REDiscovering madder colours: Science & Art for the preservation and creation of cultural heritage". In Colour & Poetry: A Symposium V, United Kingdom: Slade Press, pp. 42-43.

Vanessa Otero, Tiago Veiga, Ângela Santos, Márcia Vilarigues. 2024. "The W&N 19th century manufacture of madder reds: application to magic lantern slides". Proceedings of the 9th Symposium of the ICOM-CC Working Group on Art Technological Source Research, Paris, 24-25 November 2022, pp. 162-163. [Link] 

Vanessa Otero, Jo Volley. 2024. "REDiscover Workshop: a dialogue between artistic and scientific experimentation". In Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VI, United Kingdom: Slade Press, pp. 20.

Vanessa Otero, Tiago Veiga, Artur Moro, Maria João Melo. 2023. "Between past and future: Using historically accurate reconstructions to preserve madder colours". In Working Towards a Sustainable Past. ICOM-CC 20th Triennial Conference Preprints, Valencia, 18–22 September 2023, ed. J. Bridgland. Paris: International Council of Museums. [Link] 

Leonel C. Silva, Vanessa Otero, Maria J. Melo, Eurico J. Cabrita, Luís Mafra. 2023. "What’s the Madder? Characterization of Old Fashioned Alizarin/Aluminum Red Pigments Using Liquid and Solid-State NMR". Colorants 2(4), 601-617. [Link] 

Tiago Veiga, Artur J. Moro, Paula Nabais, Márcia Vilarigues, Vanessa Otero. 2023. "A First Approach to the Study of Winsor & Newton’s 19th-Century Manufacture of Madder Red Lake Pigments". Special Issue Dyes in History and Archaeology 41.  Heritage 6(4), 3606-3621. [Link]