Igreja Nossa Senhora do Rosário, Embu das Artes (SP): arte e educação jesuíticas

• Autor(a) principal: Bedin, Andrea Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1941
• topic: Educação; Barroco; Jesuítas; Education; Baroque; Jesuit; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS

The research focuses on the analysis of the performance of the Company of Jesus in the area of education and the production of Brazilian religious art throughout the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century, with the preliminary base historical documents of the period, mostly. We resorted, under observation and data collection, the Jesuit churches and relevant to the purpose of the survey monuments. Lent greater emphasis to Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Embu das Artes, São Paulo. In this Baroque religious complex, beyond the church, the museum and the sacristy were relevant to my research. Assuming that art constitutes element of relevance to the study of a particular historical moment and that education is one of the fundamental building blocks of a given society, it is possible to affirm the existence of a dialogue between these two elements, the fact that in the specific case of the Society of Jesus, have much contributed to the catechesis of natives and settlers who frequented the church of the Rosary, at the time, the central location of a Jesuit settlement. To do so, I sought theoretical references on authors whose works are focused on the production of sacred art in this period, especially from the Baroque and the authors argue that, in a singular manner, the role of Ignatian education during the colonial period in Brazil. In parallel, kept frequent contacts with historical sites, visits to churches and monuments. I managed a few interviews with experts and authorities on the subject