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Manuel da Costa Ataide

Manuel da Costa Ataide Sao Francisco em Oracao oil painting on canvas
Sao Francisco em Oracao
Painting ID::  88714
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Manuel da Costa Ataide Sao Francisco em Oracao oil painting on canvas



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  Manuel da Costa Ataide
  (1762 to 1830), was a Brazilian painter, sculptor, gilder and teacher. He was an important artist of the baroque school in Minas Gerais and had a major influence on painting in the region, with many students and followers. His method of composition, particularly in perspective works on church ceilings, continued to be used until the middle of the nineteenth century. Contemporary documents often refer to him as a teacher of painting. In 1818 Ataede tried without success to obtain official permission to found an art school in Mariana, his home town. He owned technical manuals and theoretical tracts such as Andrea Pozzo's "Perspectivae Pictorum Architectorum" from which he must have studied technique. His art is characterised by the use of bright colours, especially blue. He was a contemporary and colleague of Antonio Francisco Lisboa (Aleijadinho). In the period 1781 to 1818 he completed and gilded Aleijadinhoes images for the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos in Congonhas.
  Sao Francisco em Oracao
  1800(1800) Medium Oil on panel cyf

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