Antonio Landi: um arquiteto italiano na Amazônia pombalina
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Antonio Landi, Pombal’s urbanism in the Amazon, XVIIIth century architecture, Pombal’s BelémAbstract
The neighborhoods called Cidade Velha and Campina, located in Belém a city in Para ́s state, maintain on their streets and squares the beautiful architectural collection left by Antonio José Landi, an Italian architect who arrived in Pará in the year of 1753, he was hired by the Portuguese court in order to execute drawings of geographic letters and other subjects related to the Natural History. His coming to the Amazon had happened in a state political context undertaken by the minister D. José I, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, known as the “Marquês de Pombal”, with the purposes of doing a wide boarder and territorial control, therefore creating an urbanization politics without any precedent in the colony territory. The work of Landi had a decisive influence on this action of the second half of the century, in Amazon.
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2014-12-31
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DOSSIER - L’emigrazione italiana e portoghese in Brasile e altri Paesi dell’America Latina in età moderna e contemp.
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