has been PhD student since 2009 developing the theme of “The collection of Colonial art of the Lisbon Patriarchate. Proposal for Study and Museum Display”. Her main purpose in this project is to rethink the historiography of the Indo-Portuguese and how it could be reassessed in the creation of a colonial art collection (non-European objects made in an imperial context during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). Carla Alferes Pinto has been working on the artistic relations between Portugal and its Asian Empire (16th and 17th centuries) focusing issues of production, circulation and consumption of objects.