Manoel da Costa Athayde: master became a professor of arts

Author(s)

Juam Carlos Thimótheo

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2012-10-29

Examining board members

Luciano Migliaccio; Marcos Tognon; André Tavares

• Advisor: Luciano Migliaccio

Abstract

This thesis discusses the making process and understanding of the arts in Colonial Minas through an interpretation of the iconography developed by one of its greatest names: Manoel da Costa Athayde. Using as main sources the portrait of Brother Lawrence and the Supper, both paintings of Caraça Sanctuary, in Minas Gerais, we aim to identify, through the choices and appropriations made by Athayde, how a historic moment was setting itself through structural changes in the production field of the arts during the beginning of the eighteenth century (AU)