Decorum, wit and wonder on villages, squares and churches of Santa Bárbara and Catas Altas (Brazil)

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Keywords:

Wonder, Wit, Brazilian architecture (18th C.), Santa Bárbara, Catas Altas

Abstract

The text is the basis of the speech that closed the Second Week of Early Music of UFMG. The lecture took place in the shape of commented visits to squares and churches of Santa Barbara and Catas Altas (Brazil), analyzing issues such as eployment of the site, blueprint, façades and ornamentation, which shaped their beauty, their wit and their wonder.

Author Biography

  • Rodrigo Almeida Bastos, University Federal of Minas Gerais (UFMG) (Brazil)

    Engineer, architect and writer; Master in architecture from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and PhD from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (2009), where he defended the thesis entitled A maravilhosa fábrica de virtudes: o decoro na arquitetura religiosa de Vila Rica, Minas Gerais (1711-1822) - recognized in June 2010 with the Marta Rossetti Batista Art History Award. In 2008, he completed his doctoral internship in Art History at the New University of Lisbon. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Architecture at UFMG, and since 2006 is part of the faculty of the Lato Sensu Specialization Course in Baroque Culture and Art at the Institute of Philosophy, Arts and Culture of the Federal University of Ouro Preto. As a researcher, he investigates the art and architecture of Minas Gerais in the colonial period in the light of coeval precepts, a theme for which he has dozens of articles published in specialized magazines and annals of national and international scientific meetings. He won the national award for best critical essay on architecture and urbanism in 2007, Young Architects Award, with the text Regularity and order of the Minas Gerais settlements in the eighteenth century. Between 2004 and 2010, he was the singer of the Madrigale Choir, of Belo Horizonte.

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2011-07-11

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No. 24 (2011): General Topics

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Articles in Portuguese/Spanish

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“Decorum, Wit and Wonder on Villages, Squares and Churches of Santa Bárbara and Catas Altas (Brazil)”. 2011. Per Musi, no. 24 (July): 1-12. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/40436.

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