Brazil Slide Series: Collection Intro To Brazil, Slide No. 0051.

Creator

Herbert Knup
Jon M. Tolman
Siegfried Muhlhausser

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Publication Date

3-2-2009

Description

Inside the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Sabará (MG). The mining wealth of Minas Gerais permitted the growth of a sophisticated urban society in the interior. A populace of government officials, engineers, architects, businessmen and speculators were able to indulge their fancy, building sumptuous baroque and rococo mansions, churches and convents in the new towns, and attracting in tum painters, poets, musicians and sculptors.O interior da igreja Nossa Senhora da Conceição, em Sabara (MG). A riqueza mineral de Minas Gerais permitiu o crescimento de uma sofisticada sociedade urbana no interior. Uma população de administradores, engenheiros, arquitetos, comerciantes e especuladores póde satisfazer seus desejos construindo nas novas cidades magníficas mansões, igrejas e conventos, nos estilos rococó e barroco, e por sua vez, atraindo pintores, poetas, músicos e escultores.

Publisher

Latin American and Iberian Institute / University of New Mexico

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Brazil Slide Series Collection: This article is copyrighted by the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) of the University of New Mexico. Rights permission is for standard academic, non-commercial, use of these materials. Proper citation of this material should include title, author, publisher, date, and URL. Copyright Latin American and Iberian Institute University of New Mexico 1988