Domestic space, devotion and art: the historical making of the heritage of the Brazilian oratories, 18th and 19th Centuries / Espaço doméstico, devoção e arte:  a construção histórica do acervo de oratórios brasileiro, séculos XVIII e XIX

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2010

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This thesis studies the artistic production of the domestic oratories made in Brazil, especially in the 18th and 19yh centuries that have been kept now in public or private Brazilian museums. The thesis also tries to understand the dynamics of its course within the domestic context having São Paulo, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as illustrative scenery. Concerning this approach, it is of utmost importance to observe such religious artifacts in their two distinct functional universes, respectively those of a devotional feature, when they are commonly intended to the act of praying, and those of a liturgical aspect when they were specially prepared for directing the official celebrations of the Roman Catholic Church. Therefore, based upon information provided by a set of pertinent evidence, textual sources and before the collection of oratories that were chosen to be used for the analysis, a very close understanding of the artistic work performed towards this production, as well as the ways of organizing the spaces in a home within the context of the religious experiences of Catholicism, confirming the hypothesis that such artifacts were seen as the protagonists of the complex human and material relations that were establish there.

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cultura material religiosa espaço doméstico oratory são paulo brasil são paulo domestic space história da arte oratório religious material culture domestic religious practice history of art brazil prática religiosa doméstica

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