The Ceiling of the Church of São Roque: History, Conservation, and Restoration

Descriptive catalog of the history, conservation, and restoration of the ceiling painting of the nave of the Church of S. Roque of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa. This work presents to readers the unique 16th-century ceiling, the only Lisbon example that remains of the great painted ceilings from the Mannerist period. Beautifully illustrated, the catalog narrates the various interventions that the ceiling painting of the Church of S. Roque has undergone, from its origin to the present day, with particular focus on the most recent restoration work, carried out between 2000 and 2001. Through this journey of five hundred years, it is possible to know a painting that “reflects, like few other examples of national art, a deep sense of visual effectiveness, as a sensitive form of appeal to the values of the post-Tridentine church. An image of propaganda, but also of triumph, a demonstrative, explanatory, doctrinal image, but above all enchanting, spectacular, and seductive, at once complex, in the intricate program, and immediate in the sense of admiration it provokes by its magnificence and brilliance,” as described by Joaquim de Oliveira Caetano. A publication edited with the support of the Portuguese Institute of Museums / Portuguese Museum Network.

Authors: José Fernando Canas; Joaquim Oliveira Caetano; Carmen Olazabel Almada; Luís Tovar Figueira

Year of publication: 2002
Publisher: SCML, Museu de São Roque
ISBN: 9729800499

ISBN@: 9789899151017
Format: ePub
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