As gravuras e a tratadística em circulação nas Minas Gerais setecentistas e sua influência na produção da obra de Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1738-1814)

Abstract

The eighteenth-century architecture in Minas Gerais had produced numerous significant monuments to the history of Brazilian art. To this movement attended dozens of craftsmen, masters of works, sculptors and painters, among which the name and the architectural and sculptural work of Antonio Francisco Lisboa, the Aleijadinho. Even today, there is little concrete data on his professional training, but it is certain that he had studied with the Crown’s coin engraver, where he learned the techniques of drawing and artistic composition, and probably had contact with a number of French engravings. It is also known that he had practical training in architecture in his father's workshop. Specifically, we can see in the analysis of his work, that it has both approaches with Iberian roots, as the repertoire of the Rococo and artistic expressions linked to international late baroque. Analyzing the possible cultural approaches in Aleijadinho's work linked to the movement of artistic sources between Europe and the eighteenth-century Minas Gerais is the purpose of this communication.