Os bustos relicários da igreja do antigo Colégio dos Jesuítas na Bahia: o potencial histórico das imagens de Arte Sacra

Abstract

Discuss the historical potential of sacred art images, from the collection of relics busts coming of the Savior Cathedral Basilica (old church of the Jesuit College). The goal is to present a review on the subject of worship the relics in the historical context of colonial Brazil. Highlighting the sacred art images as document, based on authors who discuss the importance of historical research to contextualize the images in museum institutions. The Jesuit Order in the context of Portuguese colonization in Brazil, the creation of the school of Jesus and his missionaries and the spread of the cult due to the determination of the Council of Trent and worship the relics represented in two altars of his old church. The reliquary busts of ancient church Jesuit College of Bahia objects of study of this research with the support of iconographic research by the references of the authors who have studied the subject. Sought to present a bibliography on the sculpture in Brazil, especially on the category of shrines and production busts, prioritized dialog about the Jesuit Order and the production of sculptures in Colonial Brazil; from the function of postulates image debated its use by the church and its determination to artistic production according to the interpretation of the canons of the holy scriptures demonstrated the trajectory of the use of images in the Christian church through the trajectory of the old shrines busts collection College Church of the Jesuits.