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Charles Burnett studied for the BA in Classical in Cambridge University (May 1972) and achieved a PhD in Modern and Medieval Languages in the same university in June 1976. Having been a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge, 1976-9, and a Senior Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, 1979-82, he was Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Department of History, at the University of Sheffield (1982-4 and 1985), interrupted by a year as Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1984-5). He was appointed Lecturer in the History of Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London, in April 1985, and promoted to Professor in 1999.
A Research Scholar with the Centro de Humanidade (CHAM, formerly História d'Aquém e d'Além-Mar ) in Lisbon and Switzerland since 2010, she obtained her Ph.D in 1994 from Brown University, writing a dissertation on the court, household and collection of Catherine of Austria, queen of Portugal (1507-1578). Her areas of specialization include patronage, collecting, menageries and Kunstkammers at the Renaissance courts in Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal. In recent years, this research has focused on the court culture, patronage and collections of Habsburg women: in particular the sisters, wives and aunts of the rulers: Philip II of Spain, and the Emperors Charles V and Maximilian II. A further specialization focuses on the cultural and artistic transfer between Africa, Asia, Brazil and the Renaissance Habsburg courts.
Fernando António Baptista Pereira
Fernando António Baptista Pereira (Lisbon, 1953) is a university professor and curator and has been the President of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL) since 2019. He holds a Degree in History of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Letras, 1976), a Postgraduate Degree in Museology from the former Portuguese Institute of Cultural Heritage (1984), and a doctorate in Art Sciences (Art History) by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (2002). Currently, as a professor at FBAUL, he teaches Arts History and Museology.