Aleijadinho
Sign in to saveAntônio Francisco Lisboa ( or 1738 – 18 November 1814), better known as Aleijadinho (, ), was a sculptor, carver and architect of Colonial Brazil, noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil. With a style related to Baroque and Rococo, Aleijadinho is considered almost by consensus as the greatest exponent of colonial art in Brazil by Brazilian critics and, surpassing Brazilian borders, for some foreign scholars he is the greatest name of Baroque in the Americas.
Person
- Born
- 1730-08-29
- Died
- 1814-11-18
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- Total plays
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Key facts
- Artist.name
- Aleijadinho
- Artist.image
- Suposto retrato de Aleijadinho (cropped).png
- Artist.caption
- Alleged posthumous portrait by Euclásio Ventura, 19th century, no contemporary depiction is known
- Artist.nocat_wdimage
- yes
- Artist.birth_place
- Vila Rica (present day Ouro Preto), Minas Gerais, State of Brazil
- Artist.death_place
- Vila Rica, Minas Gerais, State of Brazil
- Artist.known_for
- Sculpting, architecture
- Artist.movement
- Baroque and Rococo
- Person.embed
- yes
- Person.signature
- Aleijadinho signature.svg
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Key dates
- Born
- 29 August 1730
- Died
- 18 November 1814
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Colonial Brazil
- Place of death
- Ouro Preto
- Occupation
- artist
- Languages spoken
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Field of work
- architecture
- Movement
- Rococo
- Image
- H Bernardelli - Retrato de Aleijadinho.jpg
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Article
23 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Early years
- Maturity
- Final years and death
- The man, the disease and the myth
- Iconography
- Historical and artistic context
- Baroque and Rococo
- The gold cycle
- Works
- The authorship and personal style issue
- Main works
- Gilded woodcarving
- Architecture
- Sculpture
- Reliefs
- Critical reception
- In popular culture
- List of documented works
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Antônio Francisco Lisboa ( or 1738 – 18 November 1814), better known as Aleijadinho (, ), was a sculptor, carver and architect of Colonial Brazil, noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil. With a style related to Baroque and Rococo, Aleijadinho is considered almost by consensus as the greatest exponent of colonial art in Brazil by Brazilian critics and, surpassing Brazilian borders, for some foreign scholars he is the greatest name of Baroque in the Americas.
Little is known with certainty about his biography, which remains shrouded in legend and controversy to this day, making the research work on his life very arduous. The main documentary source on Aleijadinho is a biographical note written only about forty years after his death. His trajectory is reconstructed mainly through the works he left behind, although even in this context his contribution is controversial, since the attribution of authorship for most of the more than four hundred creations that exist today associated with his name was made without any documentary evidence, based only on stylistic similarity with documented pieces.