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Igrejas e Conventos da Bahia - Monumenta

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simbolizando os quatro<br />

evangelistas, respectivamente,<br />

São Marcos, São Lucas, São<br />

João e São Mateus. Segundo<br />

Serafim Leite, a armação do<br />

forro foi feita pelo irmão Luís<br />

Manuel. Natural de<br />

Matozinhos, Portugal, ele era<br />

qualificado como entalhador e<br />

construtor naval, o que talvez<br />

explique a enorme<br />

composição entalha<strong>da</strong> que<br />

cobre o referido teto.<br />

Na última intervenção,<br />

termina<strong>da</strong> em 1998, os<br />

técnicos a serviço do Instituto<br />

do Patrimônio Histórico e<br />

Artístico <strong>da</strong> <strong>Bahia</strong> (Ipac)<br />

descobriram que a cor original<br />

do forro era tendente ao creme<br />

e não branca, como até então<br />

estava pintado. Essa pintura<br />

branca cobria flâmulas liga<strong>da</strong>s<br />

à iconografia jesuítica, que<br />

agora podem ser vistas.<br />

Próximo à porta <strong>da</strong><br />

entra<strong>da</strong>, do lado esquerdo,<br />

está localizado o batistério,<br />

sendo digna de especial<br />

reparo a pia, trabalha<strong>da</strong> em<br />

um só bloco de pedra de lioz<br />

e que, de época imemorial,<br />

era utiliza<strong>da</strong> na primeira<br />

vigararia <strong>da</strong> ci<strong>da</strong>de e na qual<br />

se fazia, como era costume<br />

então, batismo por imersão.<br />

Eagle and the Man,<br />

symbolizing the four<br />

Evangelists, respectively,<br />

Saint Mark, Saint Luke, Saint<br />

John and Saint Matthew.<br />

According to Serafim Leite,<br />

the ceiling’s timberwork was<br />

made by Brother Luís<br />

Manuel. Born in<br />

Matozinhos, Portugal, he<br />

was a qualified carver and<br />

naval constructor, which<br />

might explain the huge<br />

carved composition covering<br />

this ceiling.<br />

In the last intervention,<br />

completed in 1998, experts<br />

from <strong>Bahia</strong>’s Historical and<br />

Artistic Heritage Institute<br />

(Ipac) found that the ceiling<br />

was originally cream-colored<br />

rather than white, as in the<br />

last painting. This white<br />

paint used to cover flags<br />

associated to Jesuit<br />

iconography, now visible.<br />

To the left, next to the<br />

entrance door, is the<br />

baptistery, with its<br />

remarkable basin made of a<br />

single block of lioz limestone,<br />

used from time immemorial<br />

in the town’s first vicariate<br />

and where baptisms were<br />

performed by immersion, as<br />

usual at the time.<br />

<strong>Igrejas</strong> e <strong>Conventos</strong> <strong>da</strong> <strong>Bahia</strong><br />

27<br />

Churches and Convents of <strong>Bahia</strong>

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