A retórica do espaço na arquitetura religiosa portuguesa nos séculos XVI a XVIII

Abstract

In each time / place the architecture when creating spaces develops a communicative language that endures in the long time. Through the forms, constructive techniques and artistic solutions, the architecture develops a concrete code that needs interpretive keys to the reading and understanding of the object in the present. The Portuguese sacral space in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, articulated with liturgical ritual practices and historical-cultural contexts, develops a rhetorical discourse that only becomes coherent when reading the total object. The interpretation of space / object in the history of Art confers meaning to the narrative of visual and expressive forms.