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Portrait of Luiz Pereira de Almeida (Mandingueiros)

Ayrson Heráclito2020

Pinacoteca de São Paulo

Pinacoteca de São Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil

José Martins, Mateus Pereira Machado, Luiz Pereira Almeida and João da Silva were free and freed men persecuted due to religious intolerance. They lived in a gold mining region in Jacobina, in hinterland Bahia. The major charges against them were that they carried talismans and “mandinga (charm) bags.” They believed these instruments gave them luck, protection and wealth, in addition to curing harms and diseases afflicting the soul and the body. Many of the so-called mandingueiros ended up being arrested, flogged in public squares and incarcerated in the prisons of the Inquisition of Bahia.

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  • Title: Portrait of Luiz Pereira de Almeida (Mandingueiros)
  • Creator: Ayrson Heráclito
  • Date Created: 2020
  • Physical Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm (Suporte)
  • Provenance: Projeto Enciclopédia Negra (Companhia das Letras em parceria com a Pinacoteca de São Paulo, apoio do Instituto Ibirapitanga e colaboração do Instituto Soma Cidadania Criativa). Doação do artista, por intermédio da Associação Pinacoteca Arte e Cultura - APAC - em processo.
  • Type: Desenho
  • Medium: watercolour on cotton paper
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