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- Title
Study of carving art in the private chapel of the archpriestships of Lamego and Tarouca.
- Authors
de Vasconcelos Gomes CARDOSO, Pedro Alexandre Almeida
- Abstract
This thesis develops the study of carving art in the private chapel of the archpriestships in Lamego and Tarouca because there have been no similar work till nowadays in this region. In our work we present the photo research and we study the decorative elements found in the altars, as well as their structure, concerning to the classification of the epoch and style of the retables, among the 17th and 19th centuries. Here we can also see some models inspired in the art treaties of the time, and the appliance in the private spaces of the same solutions as those in the carving of the churches. We also mention the laws from council of Trent and its implementation in the region. These facts brought to the altarpiece the primordial importance to the sacred space. This led to its bigger development. We also refer the local socio economic context, emphasizing the portrait of the chapels owners and their economic power, chiefly owing to the Vinho de Lamego. The climate and the landscape of this region, mainly in agriculture, were fundamental to the income of the families, and to the location of the chapels here placed in maps along this area. The high number of the chapels built here shows the faith and the importance of the carving art for those people. We refer the principal invocations found there and their causes. We mention the majorat establishment, its origins, its rules, when the religious character joined the noble one. Painting and tile in the chapels, as complementary arts of the retable, were a very important solution for its emphasis. Painting and tile are also mentioned here because they have not been shown before in studies of art history.
- Subjects
CARVING (Decorative arts); CHURCH architecture; PORTUGUESE history
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p466
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract