THE ORNAMENTATION IN PORTUGUESE CEILINGS AND ITS REFLECTIONS IN COLONIAL SÃO PAULO.

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This article is part of the research developed in postdoctoral studies at the Postgraduate Program in Art History at UNIFESP. A comparative study was conducted between the illusionistic or quadraturist paintings found on the ceilings of churches in some Portuguese cities, compared to similar cases in the cities of São Paulo, Itu, and Mogi das Cruzes, given that there are not many influences or visual and typological references in Brazil for the São Paulo and São Paulo city paintings that are the subject of this study. As a methodology, we adopted an image comparison between the works, in addition to results obtained in field research previously conducted in a previous study. Among the numerous analyses and comparisons made, this article focuses on the analysis of ceilings with grotesque ornaments, in the paintings of the chapel of the Santo Antônio farm, in São Roque (BR), with the painting of the church of Marvila, in Santarém (PT), and the painting of the Santa Marta monastery, in Lisbon (PT). Among the results obtained, we were surprised to find that the greatest influences come from Portuguese paintings from regions further away from the capital, rural areas, with isolated churches that remained preserved from the earthquake that destroyed a large part of Lisbon's pictorial heritage. The paintings here (São Paulo – Brazil) are related to the paintings there (cities far from the Portuguese capital) in several aspects that will be partially discussed and presented in this work.