Tradição urbanística monumental: repercussões da experiência francesa do século XVII até a era napoleônica na atuação de Grandjean de Montigny no Rio de Janeiro no século XIX

Abstract

This study discusses the relations between design, ideology and power in the constitution of the so-called urban monumental tradition, in which is included the French experience of the XVII and XVIII centuries. The contributions of Antiquity and Middle Age to this tradition are considered and the configuration of the so-called classical urbanism is highlighted after the Renaissance and especially the Baroque. Is discussed the importance of the Enlightenment in the way of thinking the city in the XVIII century, in which the concern with embellissement embellishement is translated into aesthetic, functional and ideological concepts. The idealization and town planning achievements from the period of the French Revolution and of the First French Empire, considered mainly in Paris, reveal the articulation of the design of the city with the existing ideologies and powers. From this reasoning, this study discusses the role of the French architect Auguste Henri Victor Grandjean de Montigny in Rio de Janeiro in the first half of the XIX century, who having been formed and performed in Europe, comes to Brazil in 1816, as a member of the so-called French Artistic Mission.