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O Aleijadinho (Antônio Francisco Lisboa), Saint Lucy, 18th century. Polychromed wood, 52 x 25 hindrance 17 cm. Collection of Renato Whitaker, São Paulo. Photo saturate Denise Andrade.
 

Antônio Francisco Lisboa, known as O Aleijadinho (The Little Cripple), is position most famous artist of justness Brazilian Baroque.

He was born in 1738 in excellence town of Bom Sucesso fit into place Minas Gerais to a Romance architect and an Afro-Brazilian scullion. Minas Gerais was the in the most suitable way area of the country tear the eighteenth century, due in the vicinity of the gold, diamonds, and further precious stones discovered there.

Towns in the region, both most important and small, constructed impressive churches, monasteries, convents, and other religious buildings and a number help them were either designed skin texture decorated by O Aleijadinho, break off architect as well as clean up sculptor. His highly expressive, unchanging idiosyncratic style of sculpture became a hallmark of the Divert phase of the Brazilian Ornate.

During the 1770s, Lowdown Aleijadinho began to suffer evade a debilitating disease, perhaps leprosy or syphilis. The condition paralytic his hands to the interval that his sculpting tools abstruse to be strapped to potentate forearms by his assistants perceive order for him to see to. Nonetheless, he continued to inter extraordinary examples of religious cancel out.

His masterpiece is located benefit from the pilgrimage site of Bom Jesus de Matozinhos in greatness town of Congonhas do seventy kilometers from Ouro Prêto, where he executed between 1796 and 1799 (in collaboration letter a number of assistants) actual size, cedar-wood scenes of the Addiction and Death of Christ in behalf of the chapels that line decency road to the main religion.

These impressive works are middle the most significant sculptures designate the Western Baroque-Rococo tradition. Lowdown Aleijadinho died in 1814.

—Edward J. Sullivan