Dissertação
Capelas de Vila Rica: a vida festiva e os adros da freguesia de Antônio Dias do século XVIII a meados do XIX
Fecha
2020-01-30Autor
Ingrid Aparecida Rogério Ribeiro
Institución
Resumen
In order to rescue the important space of the churchyard from the 18th and 19th centuries's
Chapels, and contribute to overcoming this verified gap in the research on Baroque religious
temples, this work aims to highlight potential of these spaces in the eighteen-century Minas
Gerais. Proposing a new look at religious monuments, the churchyard will be seen in the light
of social relations that can be seen as a portrait of eighteenth-century religiosity and as an
important architectural resource to enhance the religious monument. The research is structured
in three chapters. To this end, the first chapter entitled Origins and structuring of the Christian
Temple in Brazil will contextualize the regulatory aspects of the Church and the characteristics
of the first buildings of sacred architecture erected in the Portuguese-Brazilian territory,
presenting the strong Tridentine influence in the colony. The second chapter called The
expression of religion in the eighteenth-century chapels in Vila Rica addresses the hierarchical
relationship between the Portuguese Crown, Church and the Portuguese-Brazilian colony to
understand decisive factors for adopting Catholic religious practices in Vila Rica and the
consequent organization of the Church in the eighteenth-century Minas Gerais. We will also
deal with the religious festivities experienced in Vila Rica and the devotions present in the
suburban and urban chapels. Finally, the third chapter called The churchyards in the formation
of religious architecture in eighteen-century Minas Gerais: the case of Vila Rica, to identify
and discuss the role of churchyard in the formation of urban space – as intermediate publicprivate space. The announcements are categorized in typologies of Chapels and analyzed
according to the perception of built environment and urban landscape. Thus, the churchyard
will be examined as an architectural resource of significant urban articulation, enhancement of
built monument, and space for sacred and profane relations in religious temples.