Entre o divino e o humano. O lugar da vanitas mineira nos séculos XVIII e XIX

Abstract

This Doctorate Degree Thesis aims to analyze a set of vanita’s images produced throughout the 18th and early 19TH centuries located in Minas Gerais. In order to do so/ So as to do so, further from the iconography trajectory of these images, I pursued to comprehend the initial modeling forging of this Province taking into consideration not only the Portuguese colonizer’s religious, colonial and social influence but also the established mining practices. This relationship, reinsured by the royal power, originated a society of peculiar characteristics, strongly influenced not only by the religious experience but also by the cultural structure resulting from the religious lay organization's acting. A widely knowledge of the historical period and the location where the actions had taken place enables to grasp why, to whom in addition to which reasons vanitas, death, the deceive, as had previously happened in other places after religious reforms, are explored by artistic production, were used as moral guidance instruments