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Discover the Brazilian Baroque and 15 of its main artists

Contexto e definição do Barroco brasileiro

The Brazilian Baroque begins with the arrival of colonizers, mainly Portuguese, laymen and religious. Its full development takes place in the 18th century, 100 years after the emergence of the Baroque in Europe, extending until the first two decades of the 19th century.

As a style, it is a fusion of different Baroque trends, both Portuguese, French, Italian and Spanish. This mixture is accentuated in the secular workshops, multiplied throughout the century, in which Portuguese masters join the children of Europeans born in Brazil and their caboclo and mixed ethnicity descendants to create some of the most beautiful works of Brazilian Baroque.

It can be said that the amalgamation of popular and erudite elements produced in craft brotherhoods helps to rejuvenate different styles among us, resurrecting, for example, forms of late German Gothic in the work of Aleijadinho (1730-1814). The movement reached its artistic peak from 1760 onwards, mainly with the rococo variation of the

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Aleijadinho: A Brief Commentary on His Life and Work

Catholicism and Art

Aleijadinho's century is marked, in Europe, by the emancipation of the so called mechanical arts, a group that included the plastic arts; in the Middle Ages, those were generally considered inferior in relation to the liberal arts. The very expression fine arts were created only in the 18 th century, as a result of a slow process of emancipation, triggered by the Renaissance.

The subdivision of the seven artes liberales into the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, dialectic) and quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music) comes from early Middle Ages and was inherited from late Antiquity; priority was given to the arts in closer relation to the intellect, while those "made by hands", such as sculpture, painting and even architecture tended to occupy an inferior range, as it has already been mentioned here. Although emphasised in Carolingian times, the old scheme of the liberal arts became inadequate during the 12 th and 13 th centuries, due to the growth of learning caused by the rise of t

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Aleijadinho

Colonial Brazilian sculptor and architect (c.1738–1814)

Aleijadinho
Alleged posthumous portrait by Euclásio Ventura, 19th century, no contemporary depiction is known
Born	(1738-08-29)29 August 1738 Vila Rica(present day Ouro Preto), Minas Gerais, State of Brazil
Died	18 November 1814(1814-11-18) (aged 76) Vila Rica, Minas Gerais, State of Brazil
Known for	Sculpting, architecture
Movement	Baroque and Rococo

Antônio Francisco Lisboa (c. 29 August 1730 or 1738 – 18 November 1814), better known as Aleijadinho (Portuguese pronunciation:[aleiʒaˈdʒiɲu], lit. 'little cripple'), was a sculptor, carver and architect of Colonial Brazil, noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil. With a style related to Baroque and Rococo, Aleijadinho is considered almost by consensus as the greatest exponent of colonial art in Brazil by Brazilian critics and, surpassing Brazilian borders, for some foreign scholars he is the greatest name of Baroque in the Americas.

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