O papel das imagens sacras na religiosidade: análise das obras do Museu de Arte Sacra de Pernambuco e igrejas do sítio histórico de Olinda

Abstract

This paper analyzes the importance of some sacred sculptures, belonging to the Sacred Art Museum of Pernambuco - MASPE as well as some parts of Olinda's historical site Churches, as objects that shelter in their relevant elements symbols for the historical understanding of religious formation and Brazilian culture. Therefore, we reassemble the formation of Brazilian Catholicism that makes up part of the national culture through historical research. To contextualize the historical component resort to authors who reflect on the formation of Catholicism and, consequently, the Church in Brazil, because to understand the sculptures had to first understand the historical process where they were built. After the historical reconstruction, we analyze the elements, cultural - symbolic, which summarized the socio-cultural and devotional extracts resplendent in pieces, trying to thus demonstrate the importance of this heritage, which make up part of Brazilian cultural identity.