Aleijadinho

Category
ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHY - ARCHITECTURE

Language
BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

Antônio Francisco Lisboa , 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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