Urbs e civitas: a formação dos espaços e territórios urbanos nas minas setecentistas

O presente artigo procura situar a evolução das abordagens acerca da cidade colonial mineira dentro da perspectiva mais ampla dos estudos sobre o urbanismo colonial português. A análise privilegia os trabalhos que, em vez de se aterem aos aspectos ligados à estética urbana, procuraram relacioná-los às questões fundiárias e à constituição das redes e hierarquias urbanas.This article seeks to situate the evolution of approaches to the study of the colonial towns of Minas Gerais placing them in the broader perspective of studies on the Portuguese colonial urbanism. Instead of restricting our approach to questions of urban aesthetics, the analysis focuses on the works that tried to relate these questions to aspects of land ownership and to the establishment of networks and urban hierarchies

O rococo religioso em minas gerais e seus antecedentes europeus

(Doctorat en Histoire de l'art et Archéologie) -- UCL, 199

O conceito de identidade nacional na arte mineira do período colonial

Although Mário de Andrade and the "modernists" began difining the concept of national identity in the so-called mineiro barroque after 1920, this topic is still controvertial in Brazilian art histpriography. yet it is fundamental to study the issue of originality in art produced in colonial Brazil considering its importation from Europe. This article provides an overview of how present research stands in relation to this theme and proposes new approaches and perspectives of analysis to its study.Definido a partir de 1920 por Mário de Andrade e os modernistas, o conceito de identidade nacional no chamado "barroco mineiro", tema ainda controverso na historiografia artística brasileira, é fundamental para o estudo da questão da originalidade da arte produzida no Brasil colonial face às importações européias. O presente artigo faz um balanço da situação atual da pesquisa relativa ao tema e propõe novas abordagens e perspectivas de análise

Do "Rocaille" Francês ao Rococó religioso brasileiro

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Religiosidade e suas manifestações no espaço urbano de Salvador

O Brasil foi descoberto e ocupado sob a égide do cristianismo, reforçado pelo movimento da Contrarreforma Católica. Promovida pela Igreja Católica Apostólica Romana, opunha-se à Reforma Protestante, reafirmava o uso das imagens e ditava uma série de normas a serem seguidas pelos fiéis, expressas nas Constituições Primeiras do Arcebispado da Bahia, de 1707. A Contrarreforma enfatizou a importância das manifestações públicas de fé, a maior participação da população nas coisas da Igreja. As procissões foram o exemplo típico dessas manifestações, promovidas, especialmente, pelas Irmandades e/ou ordens terceiras leigas. Nas procissões, ou cenários públicos de fé, as imagens das figuras santas e festas barrocas tiveram um papel primordial. Dentre elas, se resgatou um uso medieval das marionetes - acrescido da dramaticidade tirada do teatro de ópera -, transformadas em imagens de roca e de vestir. Estas constituíram, sobretudo no século XVIII, instrumentos eficientes para despertar a fé de leigos e religiosos. As ruas e praças - do antigo centro histórico da cidade do Salvador - serviram de grande cenário, no qual evoluía a maior parte das procissões. Destacavam-se as procissões dos Mistérios da Paixão, de Corpus Christi ou cenas correlatas, em datas fixas ou móveis, ao lado da multiplicação das representações da Santíssima Trindade, especialmente a cruz ou o Cristo Crucificado

AMAZONIA CAMTRAP: A data set of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest

The Amazon forest has the highest biodiversity on Earth. However, information on Amazonian vertebrate diversity is still deficient and scattered across the published, peer-reviewed, and gray literature and in unpublished raw data. Camera traps are an effective non-invasive method of surveying vertebrates, applicable to different scales of time and space. In this study, we organized and standardized camera trap records from different Amazon regions to compile the most extensive data set of inventories of mammal, bird, and reptile species ever assembled for the area. The complete data set comprises 154,123 records of 317 species (185 birds, 119 mammals, and 13 reptiles) gathered from surveys from the Amazonian portion of eight countries (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela). The most frequently recorded species per taxa were: mammals: Cuniculus paca (11,907 records); birds: Pauxi tuberosa (3713 records); and reptiles: Tupinambis teguixin (716 records). The information detailed in this data paper opens up opportunities for new ecological studies at different spatial and temporal scales, allowing for a more accurate evaluation of the effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, climate change, and other human-mediated defaunation processes in one of the most important and threatened tropical environments in the world. The data set is not copyright restricted; please cite this data paper when using its data in publications and we also request that researchers and educators inform us of how they are using these data

Brazilian Flora 2020: Leveraging the power of a collaborative scientific network

International audienceThe shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impediment and the biodiversity crisis are widely recognized, highlighting the urgent need for reliable taxonomic data. Over the past decade, numerous countries worldwide have devoted considerable effort to Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), which called for the preparation of a working list of all known plant species by 2010 and an online world Flora by 2020. Brazil is a megadiverse country, home to more of the world's known plant species than any other country. Despite that, Flora Brasiliensis, concluded in 1906, was the last comprehensive treatment of the Brazilian flora. The lack of accurate estimates of the number of species of algae, fungi, and plants occurring in Brazil contributes to the prevailing taxonomic impediment and delays progress towards the GSPC targets. Over the past 12 years, a legion of taxonomists motivated to meet Target 1 of the GSPC, worked together to gather and integrate knowledge on the algal, plant, and fungal diversity of Brazil. Overall, a team of about 980 taxonomists joined efforts in a highly collaborative project that used cybertaxonomy to prepare an updated Flora of Brazil, showing the power of scientific collaboration to reach ambitious goals. This paper presents an overview of the Brazilian Flora 2020 and provides taxonomic and spatial updates on the algae, fungi, and plants found in one of the world's most biodiverse countries. We further identify collection gaps and summarize future goals that extend beyond 2020. Our results show that Brazil is home to 46,975 native species of algae, fungi, and plants, of which 19,669 are endemic to the country. The data compiled to date suggests that the Atlantic Rainforest might be the most diverse Brazilian domain for all plant groups except gymnosperms, which are most diverse in the Amazon. However, scientific knowledge of Brazilian diversity is still unequally distributed, with the Atlantic Rainforest and the Cerrado being the most intensively sampled and studied biomes in the country. In times of “scientific reductionism”, with botanical and mycological sciences suffering pervasive depreciation in recent decades, the first online Flora of Brazil 2020 significantly enhanced the quality and quantity of taxonomic data available for algae, fungi, and plants from Brazil. This project also made all the information freely available online, providing a firm foundation for future research and for the management, conservation, and sustainable use of the Brazilian funga and flora