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- Title
The mural painting in Northern Alentejo (16th to 18th centuries): Thematic nuclei of the Serra de S. Mamede.
- Authors
MONTEIRO, Patrícia Alexandra Rodrigues
- Abstract
Our work proposal consists in analyzing the Northern Alentejo mural paintings, specifically, the region that belonged to the ancient Portalegre and Elvas dioceses, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. This is a theme unprecedented, considering the scarcity of studies for the same region, which has been reflected in ignorance of its artistic heritage, somehow devalued by comparison with the existing wealth, for example, in the Évora district. Nevertheless, the Portalegre district still presents nowadays some of the most unique pictorial cases, which we need to analyse. These records give account of the existing networks of well-informed clientele, knowing what of the best was produced nationally, which comes with the proven presence in different times of painters from Lisbon (Simon Rodrigues and Domingos Vieira Serrão) of Évora (Jose Escovar) or from Badajoz (Luis de Morales). We have identified, thus, about one hundred and fifty cases (including those which disappeared more recently), executed in fresco or oil painting, made mostly between the late 16th century until the end of the 18th century, properly recorded by this work, with historical, iconographic, artistic, stylistic and authorial identification. The northern Alentejo murals, within all its heterogeneity, builds up between classical programs and compositions of a more popular or vernacular nature, which are nothing more than different forms of artistic expression through a technique well rooted nationally.
- Subjects
ALENTEJO (Portugal); MURAL art; RODRIGUES, Simon
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p591
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract