Visita ao museu de pedra: o Cemitério da Saudade de Campinas - SP

• Autor(a) principal: ELUSTA, Halima Alves de Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2823
• topic: Cemitério da Saudade, Campinas, arte-funerária; Funerary art; Campinas; Saudade Cemetery; Artist-artisans; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::ARTES::FUNDAMENTOS E CRITICA DAS ARTES::CRITICA DA ARTE

The Saudade Cemetery, in Campinas, Brazil, is considered na open-sky museum for burial monuments that represents and materialize the relation man death in this city. The main goal of the present research is to show the transformations after the death secularization in the city, since 1881, when the cemetery was founded till the 1950 s decade. The transformations occurred during this period are here represented by statuary, tombs and monuments elaborated by Giuoseppe Tomagnini, Vélez Family, V. Lazzeri, Rosada Family, Coluccini Brothers and Camillo dos Santos. Those artist-artisans responsible for that buildings were influenced by stylistic of the European funerary art, such as neoclassic and eclectic architecture, art nouveau, art déco and modern to attend to the local citizen needs in order to preserve their memory. The burial buildings found in the Saudade Cemitery, besides a local for reflection and memory, can be considered significant part of Historical and Cultural Patrimony of Campinas