Decorações murais: técnicas pictóricas de interiores: Pelotas/RS (1878-1927).

Abstract

The dissertation discusses with the assets forming part of the eclectic historicist heritage of Pelotas, the object of study is the developed painting techniques on wall surfaces of indoor environments: the plaster, the stencil, the freehand painting, trompe-l'oeil, the marouflage and the marbled. Thee parietal decorations nine city buildings were analyzed: residential townhouse Alfredo Gonçalves Moreira, son of Butuí Baron; the two-storey houses of St. Louis Baron; Councillor Francisco Antunes Maciel; Senator Joaquim Augusto Assumption; Thereza Simões Dias da Costa; the Caixeiral Club; the Public Library Pelotense; the Guarani Theater and City Palace. It describe the origins and development of murals in the history of the Western world art, from prehistoric times to Eclecticism. The conversion of architectural style and decorative procedures to Brazil was identifided as well as the formation of Brazilian labor and on the manuals used by artists and craftsmen in the area. It presents buildings and discusses the materials and pictorial ornamentation developed in indoor environments of Pelotas listed buildings. Peculiarizes each of the procedures founded in the houses. Gives examples and performs formal reading, iconographic and iconological of the found models.