Santos homens
Subtitle: os combatentes da fé
By: curadoria, Angela Gutierrez ; pesquisa histórica e textos, Adriano Reis Ramos [and five others]
Contributors: Museu de Sant'Ana (Tiradentes, Brazil); Instituto Cultural Flávio Gutierrez
Publisher: Instituto Cultural Flávio Gutierrez; Museu de Sant'Ana
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Belo Horizonte]; [Tiradentes]
Language: por
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art collections; Christian saints in art; Brazilian Wood sculpture; Polychromy; Sculpture; Private collections; Christian saints; Cult; Cults
Description: The exhibition comprises thirty Brazilian Baroque icons created by popular artists and scholars such as Aleijadinho, Mestre de Piranga, Mestre Cabra, Francisco Xavier de Brito and Francisco Vieira Servas. The works are all dated from the 18th and 19th centuries and belong to private collections. "The saints of this exhibition were Catholic men and women recognized for their exemplary conduct, and worthy of eternal devotion."
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Museu de Sant'Ana, Tiradentes, Brazil, August 20 - October 20, 2016.
Table of contents: title: Um testemunho comovente da fé que ilumina a humanidade / Ângela Gutierrez; title: Santos homes no paraíso brasileiro / Ângelo Oswaldo de Araújo Santos; title: Devoção, tradição e costumes / Cristina Ávila; title: Santos homens: os combatentes da fé; title: Jesus e o santos homens; title: Santos homens; title: Grandes mestres.