Além das formas, a bem dos rostos : faces mestiças da produção cultural barroca recifense (1701 - 1789)

Abstract

This paper discusses the process of cultural hybridization in Recife eighteenth century through the lives of three characters representing the local production baroque Manoel Ferreira Jácome, master mason, John of God and Sepúlveda, painter, and Luiz Alves, musician. It is intended, by examining their influences and creative process, understanding the key aspects related to the intrinsic and economic Recife eighteenth century, marked by the condition of commercial center and port of significant importance in the colonial Portuguese. Based on the concept of "everyday sociability" works by Baroque architects refer to such a complexity, and symbolic aesthetic pervaded by a very pragmatic character of social mobility of individuals, are inherent to their cultural universe mestizo and especially for business practices , patronage and mutual. The research aims to explain how, in the commercial context, urban and cosmopolitan eighteenth and deal with such conditions, the said officers, coming from the subordinate layer, had assumed "places of speech" in the highly stratified society of Recife. In these "places of enunciation," contributed to the spreading of the Baroque Captaincy northern Brazil and remained reasonably consistent with Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, who were together in Recife, the three main warehouses, administrative centers, political and cultural in Colonial Brazil. So, as a work linked to the research line "regional culture" of PPGH-UFRPE, this work of the tensions and conflicts of the art scene of the eighteenth century the economic headquarters of the captaincy of Pernambuco2 to allow a better understanding of local baroque.