Batisterio. Igreja de São Paulo

Leopoldo Plentz1987/1987

Details

Title: Batisterio. Igreja de São Paulo
Creator Lifespan: 1952 - Present
Creator Nationality: Brazilian
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Birth Place: Porto Alegre
Date: 1987/1987
Physical Dimensions: w9.375 x h9.375 in
Photographer: Leopoldo Plentz
Description: Batistério. Igreja de São Miguel, RS, an image of the baptistery of São Miguel das Missões. Located in Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, the mission was built between 1735–45 by Jesuits missionaries and charged chiefly with the conversion of the Guaraní and the protection of the Portuguese slave traders known as the Bandeirantes. Batistério. Igreja de São Miguel, RS includes evocative, ghostly forms in the background. He superimposed partial images of the same figure, lit from below, against the image of the ruins. -Text by Mark Andrew White
Type: Photograph
Medium: photograph

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