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Jardim Botânico de Coimbra: contraponto entre a Arte e a ... - artez

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Lemos retoma a direcção da Universida<strong>de</strong>,<br />

mantendo-se no cargo até 1821. Logo que<br />

reassumiu funções empenhou-se em dar o<br />

maior <strong>de</strong>senvolvimento às obras do <strong>Jardim</strong><br />

<strong>Botânico</strong>, esforço que, porém, não viria a ser<br />

tão frutífero como no seu primeiro reitorado<br />

dado o contexto, marcado pelas invasões<br />

francesas e pelas convulsões políticas<br />

nacionais, em que se <strong>de</strong>senrolou.<br />

Em 1801 or<strong>de</strong>nou a construção das escadas<br />

do segundo plano. O <strong>de</strong>senho a tinta-<br />

-da-china e aguada castanha e cinzenta<br />

sobre papel, não datado nem assinado, que<br />

se encontra na Biblioteca Geral da Universida<strong>de</strong><br />

<strong>de</strong> <strong>Coimbra</strong>, constitui, com probabilida<strong>de</strong>,<br />

o projecto, guisado no final do<br />

século XVIII e posto em prática no começo<br />

da centúria seguinte, para o levantamento<br />

das escadas <strong>entre</strong> o segundo e terceiro<br />

plano do <strong>Jardim</strong>. De facto, da sua observação<br />

resulta o reconhecimento que tal plano<br />

veio a ter consecução, uma vez que, quer do<br />

lado Norte, quer do lado Sul do <strong>Jardim</strong>, as<br />

the third level follow the scheme proposed.<br />

Moreover, of the two solutions put forward<br />

for the endings of the walls, it is precisely<br />

the <strong>de</strong>coration marked “not suitable” that<br />

seems to have been used, if we look carefully<br />

at the present Gar<strong>de</strong>n.<br />

In 1807, the purchase of part of the grounds<br />

belonging to the Marian priests, negotiated<br />

33 years before, finally went ahead. It<br />

was also the year when Félix Avelar Brotero<br />

(who had been in charge of the scientific<br />

organization of the Gar<strong>de</strong>n since 1791<br />

and was responsible for the teaching of<br />

botany and agriculture) ma<strong>de</strong> his most<br />

<strong>de</strong>cisive pronouncement about the plan<br />

to be followed in the Gar<strong>de</strong>n. The report<br />

sent to the rector on 5th March 1807 is of<br />

great importance, not only because in it<br />

Avelar Brotero specifies the <strong>de</strong>finition and<br />

aims of this type of establishment, but also<br />

because he indicates which parts of it were<br />

essential and which secondary [7], accompanied<br />

by a survey of what had been com-<br />

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