Brazilian Baroque

Baroque in Brazil

The Baroque in Brazil was the dominant artistic style during most of the colonial period, finding an open ground for a rich flowering. It made its appearance in the country at the beginning of the 17th century, introduced by Catholic missionaries, especially Jesuits, who went there in order to catechize the native indigenous peoples and assist the Portuguese in the colonizing process. In the course of the Colonial period, expressed a close association between the Church and the State, but in the colony, there was not a court that would serve as a patron of the arts, the elites did not bother to build palaces, or to help sponsor the profane arts, but at the end of the period, and how the religion had a strong influence on the daily lives of everyone in this group of factors derives from the vast majority of the legacy of the Brazilian Baroque period, is the sacred art: statuary, painting, and the work of carving for the decoration of churches and convents, or for private worship.

African slaves in Brazil included many more men than women. They were hired out as cooks, nursemaids, carpenters, cobblers, goldsmiths, printers: all kinds of trade could be hired. They were also equally involved in building masonry work some of which include the old blue colonial church in Brazil.

The first recorded repatriation of African people from Brazil to what is now Nigeria was government-led deportation in 1835 in the aftermath of a Yoruba and Hausa rebellion in the city of Salvador known as the Malê Revolt. After the colonization of Lagos in 1862 and the end of slavery in Brazil in 1888 respectively, further migration to Lagos continued. Many of the returnees chose to return to Nigeria for cultural, missionary, and economic reasons. By the 1880s, they comprised about 9% of the population of Lagos. Towards the end of 1920, the migration stopped.

The Agudas settled in the Brazilian Quarter and they encouraged their children to learn trades and skills. Most of the structures they built were either completed or renovated by their children or apprentices. The houses they built mostly took the forms of a Sobrado.

A Sobrado is a type of house style building from the Portuguese colonial era, typical in Brazil and other former Portuguese colonies. It is a form equivalent to the Anglo-American townhouse, particularly the creole townhouse in Louisiana. Featuring typically two floors with a balcony.

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African slaves in Brazil included many more men than women. They were hired out as cooks, nursemaids, carpenters, cobblers, goldsmiths, printers: all kinds of trade could be hired. They were also equally involved in building masonry work some of which include the old blue colonial church in Brazil.

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The Agudas settled in the Brazilian Quarter and they encouraged their children to learn trades and skills. Most of the structures they built were either completed or renovated by their children or apprentices. The houses they built mostly took the forms of a Sobrado.

A Sobrado is a type of house style building from the Portuguese colonial era, typical in Brazil and other former Portuguese colonies. It is a form equivalent to the Anglo-American townhouse, particularly the creole townhouse in Louisiana. Featuring typically two floors with a balcony.