Aleijadinho

Also known as Antônio Francisco da Costa Lisboa, António Francisco Lisboa, Antonio Francisco Lisboa, O Aleijadinho, Antônio Francisco Da Costa Lisboa, Antônio Francisco Lisboa, Antonio Francisco da Costa Lisboa

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.

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It is catalogued under topics including 1730s births, 1814 deaths and 18th-century Brazilian artists.

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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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Arquivos Aleijadinho - Arte Fora do Museu

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Antônio Francisco Lisboa, mais conhecido como Aleijadinho, foi um importante escultor, entalhador e arquiteto do Brasil colonial.

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Image: H Bernardelli - Retrato de Aleijadinho.jpg

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Commons category: Aleijadinho
date of death: 1814-11-18
Commons Creator page: Aleijadinho
date of birth: 1730-08-29
name in native language: Aleijadinho
pseudonym: Lisboa, Antonio Francisco
described at URL: arteforadomuseu.com.br/artistas/aleijadinho-arte-fora-do-museu

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Encyclopedic overview

23 sections

Contents

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

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.

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