Ladrilhos hidráulicos: bens integrados aos prédios tombados de Pelotas-RS.

Abstract

The thesis approaches the goods integrated to Pelotas-RS’s historical patrimony. Its study object is the hydraulic tile employed as the declared national, state and municipal buildings’ ornamental floor coating. The thesis expatiates on the concepts applied to historical patrimony, its preservation tools and safeguard. It discusses the artifacts’ origin and their artistic influence in stamped patterns’ creation. It identifies the materials employed and depicts the technique, which maintained unaltered over more than one century. It narrates the main issues of the interviews accomplished in two technical visits on local companies that manufacture tiles in the urban zone. It associates the centenary production with the artisan’s professional identity formation through “pedagogia do ver e fazer” in the production daily context. It performs an inventory, cataloguing images from the identified specimen, as well as elaborates an appropriate sheet to the object’s particularities. It descriptively analyses the descriptively analyses the formal elements of the specimen on the inventory sheets and the composition developed by the artifacts, displayed in carpets or mosaics, operating an iconographic and iconological reading of these items.