URBAN LAYOUT AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BAROQUE CITY

SÃO PAULO IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Abstract

Baroque was an artistic style that built cities. For a long time, the
historiography produced in Brazil did not look more closely at the history of baroque drama
in Sao Paulo city. This has always been seen as a city built with government money.
coffee, modern city and locomotive in Brazil. Baroque is an artistic style linked in most
sometimes the cities of Minas Gerais, the city of Rio de Janeiro and the cities on the coast
sugar industry in Northeast Brazil. This research found that the city of São Paulo was as
dramatic and baroque like the examples cited here. I made a brief overview from the
new historiography about baroque cities and sought to analyze the striking presence of the baroque
as “building style” of the city of São Paulo, in this sense, the political and religious powers
worked together and built colonial São Paulo on the Portuguese model, making it a
Baroque city like so many others in the Portuguese Empire. The methodology sought support from the vast
specialized bibliography to support the interpretation and understanding of a baroque city.