Name: RICARDO ALIPRANDI RODRIGUES
Publication date: 10/05/2018
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| ALMERINDA DA SILVA LOPES | Advisor * |
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| ALMERINDA DA SILVA LOPES | Advisor * |
| GASPAR LEAL PAZ | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: This masters dissertation studies the operation of typographic houses and the papers printed by them in Brazil, during the Colonial Period, although the prohibition of this type of enterprise in the colony by the Portuguese Crown. As is generally known and according to the main bibliographical sources consulted on the subject, the printing activity in our country was indeed consolidated after the arrival of the royal family in 1808 and, accordingly, with the official installation of the Royal Press in the Rio de Janeiro. This dissertation aims to increase the researchers that were made by several historians and art critics between the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, but who were not able to enhance the memory of the graphic arts in the period of our cut. There are few known facts. This was observed in almost all the researchers examined. In this sense, assumptions and attempts of printing are reported from the beginning of the seventeenth century, during the Dutch occupation in the Brazilian Northeast, one of the oldest and proven attempt; the probable typography of Recife dating from 1706; there is also a print of a metal engraving, attributed to the Jesuit priest Alexandre de Gusmão, probably printed at the end of the seventeenth century, initiatives that divert the censures imposed by the Portuguese government. As a case study, the operation of the Portuguese typographer in Rio de Janeiro, between 1747 and 1749, of great renown in Lisbon, which he edited here: posters, books and leaflets; and the priest of Minas Gerais, an artist, engraver, painter and ceramist, José Joaquim Viegas de Menezes, who under the auspices of the governor of Minas Gerais, printed an important work with the technique of calcography, in which he was a specialist. This experience was acquired at the Oficina Tipográfica, Calcográfica e Literária do Arco do Cego, an important Portuguese printing house at the time. Viegas is also awarded the first Brazilian ex-libris and three loose religious-themed prints, works carried out with the same engraving technique, works were collected and analyzed in this research.
Keywords: press; typography; Brazilian engraving; Jesuits; Antonio Isidoro da Fonseca; José Joaquim Viegas de Menezes.(versão final).
