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ResumoCom vista à protecção do património hidráulico de Évora, foi desenvolvido um projecto de restauro de dezoito estruturas, de diferentes tipologias (fontes, bicas e chafarizes), que se caracterizam pela sua diversidade em valor histórico e estado de conservação. O principal objectivo deste trabalho promovido pela Câmara Municipal de Évora e desenvolvido pela Nova Conservação, Lda. foi a conservação, o restauro e a reactivação das referidas estruturas, de modo a devolvê-las ao público. Nesta exposição, apresentam-se a metodologia e procedimentos efectuados para a sua recuperação, com destaque para os Chafarizes do Largo de São Mamede e, em particular, de Alconchel, devido à descoberta de pintura mural decorativa a fresco ("marmoreados") subjacente às camadas de tinta de cal. Palavras-chaveÉvora; Património hidráulico; Pintura Mural; Argamassa de cal; Pigmento. AbstractIn order to protect the hydraulic heritage of Évora, a restoration project was carried on eighteen structures with different typologies (wall fountains, free standing fountains, drinking fountains) characterized by their diversity in historical value and state of conservation. The main objectives of this work promoted by the Municipality of Évora and developed by the company Nova Conservação, Lda. were the conservation, restoration and reactivation of these structures in order to give them back to the public. This paper presents the methodologies for their recovering. A particular emphasis was given to the fountains of "Largo de São Mamede" and, specially, of "Rua de Alconchel" due to the discovery of decorative mural paintings made using fresco techniques (feigned marbles) underneath layers of lime wash.

Translation of the Bible or any other text unavoidably involves a determination about its meaning. There have been different views of meaning from ancient times up to the present, and a particularly Enlightenment and Modernist view is that the meaning of a text amounts to whatever the original author of the text intended it to be. This article analyzes the authorial-intent view of meaning in comparison with other models of literary and legal interpretation. Texts are anchors to interpretation but are subject to individualized interpretations. It is texts that are translated, not intentions. The challenge to the translator is to negotiate the meaning of a text and try to choose the most salient and appropriate interpretation as a basis for bringing the text to a new audience through translation.

Given its impact on the perception of observers, the reintegration of lacunae in works of pictorial art is one of the most delicate and debated conservation-restoration actions. This text describes the methodology that guided the technical choices regarding the chromatic reintegration of the lacunae and the protective finishing of the mural surfaces in the Nossa Senhora da Piedade (Our Lady of Mercy) Hermitage, in Loulé. Additional reference is made to the way in which those choices/methodology articulated the symbolic and religious values of the hermitage paintings with the ethical and deontological principles of conservation-restoration. Although the type of intervention and its final outcome should always be discussed with the stakeholders, and eventual consultants, technical choices will necessarily be made by the conservator-restorer, who must therefore have training, experience and sensitivity adequate to the critical analysis required by this type of decision making.