Herança simbólica da azulejaria na arte sacra: análise iconográfica e iconológica dos paineis no convento de Santo Antônio na Paraíba

• Autor(a) principal: Chaves , Maria Luiza Xavier
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório do Centro Universitário Braz Cubas
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/1757
• topic: Azulejaria; Narrativa visual; Análise iconológica; iconográfica; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ARQUITETURA E URBANISMO

This work analyzes the images of Portuguese tiles in Brazil, bringing specific attention to the pieces present in the Convento de Santo Antônio, located in the third oldest historical pole in Brazil, city of João Pessoa, Paraíba. In the beginning in 1589, the work was simple, made of mud with only one cloister and twelve cells, later, it went through different occupations and extensions, which allowed the creation of new architectural lines with characteristics of the tropical baroque that became definitive throughout the XVII century. The convent has a complex artistic collection, with paintings, details sculpted in limestone and tiles inserted in multiple time frames. It intends to establish a historical perspective related to the tile chronology as a decorative and covering element of the emergence to Brazil in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, arising from the process of acculturation by Portuguese colonization, thus, with the same kind, technique and materials from the matrix and with a symbolism of a trace of the constructive heritage of the time. The exploratory investigation intends to study these artistic elements, going through the fields of temporal cutouts and influences through a visual narrative memorized in each tile panel present in different environments of the convent, beginning in the churchyard with the niches decorated with the narrative of the Via Sacra, the polychromatic tiles of the galilee and cloister and the monochromatic tiles of the nave of the Igreja de São Francisco. Simultaneously, tracing a trajectory of iconological and iconographic analysis with a focus on the nave’s pieces, the largest set of figurative tiles in the convent with 23 meters of figurative representations narrating the saga of José do Egito produced by the tile master Teotónio dos Santos, who perceives the similarities with iconographic sources and manuals that were widely disseminated and used in Portuguese America and Europe, for the creation of works with themes with specific attributes and personifications.