Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- 1 The Portuguese settlement of Brazil, 1500–1580
- 2 Portugal and Brazil, 1580–1750
- 3 Portugal and Brazil, 1750–1808
- 4 Population
- 5 Plantations and peripheries, c. 1580–c. 1750
- 6 Indians and the frontier
- 7 The gold cycle, c. 1690–1750
- 8 Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808
- 9 The Catholic church
- 10 Architecture and art
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
10 - Architecture and art
from III - COLONIAL BRAZIL
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- 1 The Portuguese settlement of Brazil, 1500–1580
- 2 Portugal and Brazil, 1580–1750
- 3 Portugal and Brazil, 1750–1808
- 4 Population
- 5 Plantations and peripheries, c. 1580–c. 1750
- 6 Indians and the frontier
- 7 The gold cycle, c. 1690–1750
- 8 Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808
- 9 The Catholic church
- 10 Architecture and art
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
The extensive critical literature now available to scholars covering most aspects of Brazilian colonial architecture and art dates back to 1937, when the first numbers appeared of the Revista and Publicaçãoes of the Serviço do Património Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Ministério da Educação e Cultura (SPHAN). These two series have provided the solid basis of documentation and critical analysis which has opened up the subject for serious study. In the same year, 1937, there was published the first important general survey of Brazilian colonial architecture: Juan Giuria, ‘La riqueza arquitectónica de algunas ciudades del Brasil’, Revista de la Sociedad Amigos de la Arqueología, 8 (Montevideo, 1937).
General studies of the colonial period that are worthy of note include: Robert C. Smith, ‘The arts in Brazil’, in H. V. Livermore (ed.), Portugal and Brazil (Oxford, 1953); Germain Bazin, L’architecture religieuse baroque au Brésil, 2 vols. (Paris, 1956–8); A. C. da Silva Telles, Atlas dos monumentos históricos e artísticos do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 1975); Benedito de L. Toledo, ‘A arte no Brasil do século XVI ao início do século XIX’, in História geral da arte no Brasil, I (São Paulo, 1983); and John Bury, Arquitectura e arte no Brasil colonial (São Paulo, 1990). The latter reprints in Portuguese translation (edited by Myriam Andrade Ribeiro de Oliveira, with illustrations, including over eighty architectural drawings and engravings) nine essays on the art and architecture of Brazil, Portugal, Portuguese India and China during the period 1500–1800. On eighteenth-century religious sculpture and painting throughout Brazil, see Myriam A. Ribeiro, ‘A arquitetura e as artes plásticas no século XVIII brasileiro’, in Gávea: Revista de Historia da Arte 2 (1985).
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 215 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995