Arte decorativa: forros de estuques em relevo Pelotas, 1876/1911.

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the integrated historicist eclectic architectural heritage of Pelotas goods. Its central object embossed ornaments adorning the linings of stucco interiors of old residences of Conselheiro Francisco Antunes Maciel, the Barão de São Luis, of Francisco Alsina, and of Paço Municipal environments. Presents the origins and development of the technique of stucco. Discourse the materials used in the masses, on the instruments used for plastering and about the different techniques of stucco. Exposes the diversity of compositions and finishing of smooth stucco and its various nomenclatures. Comments on the stucco relief: on the structural process of linining as support for the ornamentations, and the molding of composite elements, modeled in loco or obtained through forms. Identifies different molds and the reliefs typologies: about the function and nature of the parts. Synthetically explains about the stucco copies in Brazil. Discourse on the Pelotas eclecticism on the builders and artificers who worked on building sites during the period. Presents the four buildings studied. Formal and iconographic/ iconologically analyzes the complex compositions developed in the ceilings of the rooms inside the buildings.