Ilusionist paintings' authorship of São Paulo State: São Paulo, Itu and Mogi das Cruzes (Brazil)

Author(s)

Danielle Manoel dos Santos Pereira

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo. 2017-05-19.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Artes. São Paulo
• Defense date: 2017-03-23
• Advisor: Percival Tirapeli

Abstract

This resarch aims to search into the primary sources the ilusionist paintings’ authorship of some colonial churches of São Paulo State. In São Paulo city - Venerável Ordem Terceira de São Francisco da Penitência da cidade de São Paulo church (paintings on the ceiling of the presbytery, nave medallion and the dome) and Venerável Ordem Terceira de Nossa Senhora do Carmo church (paintings on the panel of the ceiling of the sacristy, library, nave, choir and presbytery); in Itu city - Nossa Senhora da Candelária main church (painting on the ceiling of the presbytery) and the Nossa Senhora do Carmo church (paintings on the ceiling of the presbytery, nave, and the panels ceiling of the “old chapel”); in Mogi das Cruzes city - Nossa Senhora do Carmo church (painting on the ceiling of the presbytery) and Ordem Terceira de Nossa Senhora do Carmo church (paintings on the ceiling of the presbytery, nave and vestibule of the sacristy). Based on these documents, it is possible to discuss an to review the atributions established by Frei Adalberto Ortmann (1951) and Mário de Andrade (1963), legitimating or refuting them. To catalogue the active painters in São Paulo, Itu and Mogi das Cruzes cities in the colonial period and the painters interfered in the primitive works since 1850. To make a catalogue of the ceilings painted in São Paulo State (baroque and rococo period), establishing phases for the colonial paulista painting inside the whole setting and context, presenting the works and the qualities of each typological group, consecrating them in the brazilian territory in a single group of high quality works which escaped from the traditional evolutive line. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/04082-1 - Author illusionist paintings of the State of São Paulo: São Paulo, Itu and Mogi das Cruzes
• Grantee: Danielle Manoel dos Santos Pereira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate