Venus, Crucifixes, Hearts and Archangels: Art and catholic reform between Rome, Paris, Munich, Lisbon and Belém do Pará (1860-1890)

• Autor(a) principal: Figueiredo, Aldrin Moura de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Rodrigues, Silvio Ferreira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/29729
• topic: D. Macedo Costa; Pius IX; Italian art; Romanization; Religious painting; Material culture; D. Macedo Costa; Pio IX; Arte italiana; Romanização; Pintura religiosa; Cultura material

This article analyzes the role of sacred and religious art in Amazonia in the context of the Brazilian catholic renovation movement in the nineteenth century, from an international perspective. For that, the article analyses the iconological programme carried out by the Bishop of Pará D. Antônio de Macedo Costa, between the decades of 1860 and 1880, with special focus on the substitution of 18th century paintings by contemporary ones, at the time considered more ‘modern’ and in line with the new artistical parameters of Roman Catholicism. This reform at Belém’s Cathedral, together with others in the same period, throughout Pio IX’s pontificate, constitutes an iconological programme as well as an artistical and sacred narrative body, which testify to the pedagogical and political debates on the history of the Catholic world in the 19th century, from Roman guidelines.