Resumen de The Sounds of the Baroque Tiles: An Iconographic Itinerary of St. Victor’s Church, Braga, Portugal
Elisa Lessa, Helena Brandão Viana
The interior tiles of St. Victor’s Church, from the seventeenth century, includes four panels and a fragment of tiles that present musical motifs associated with different contexts. The coating was ordered and sponsored by Archbishop D. Luís de Sousa (1637–1690), who also defined the respective iconographic program carried out by one of the most renowned tile painters in Lisbon, the Spaniard Gabriel del Barco (1648–c. 1701), although art historians recognize the potential artistic influence of other individuals, not yet identified. The study presents a descriptive and interpretative analysis of the musical motives identified in the panel of St. Rosendo, which integrates the most monumental pictorial set of local hagiography in Portugal.
