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Title
Convent of Saint Teresa
Description
Composition in blue tones, green, ochre, earthy, yellow, red, rose, white and black. Smooth and rough texture, some marked brushstrokes. Houses, trees and convent of Santa Teresa neighborhood. In the foreground on the left, representing roofs of three houses arranged in a pyramidal shape. The wide roof is more flat bottom, while the lowest is higher up and further back. Near this, narrow and tall building with roof and two windows, suggests a well to lift the type used by inclined planes. On the right, large townhouse with roof tiles type channel-seven windows arranged non-regularly or symmetrically. At the back of this townhouse, yard with high tree and leafy suggestion and two poles with hanging clothes. Delimiting the yard and the inclined plane, wall stretching from the left to the right. In the background, a small house on the left, light poles near the wall to the center and on the right and large convent in higher plane on small hill. Convent represented in diagonal perspective: Front on the right and on the left side extending to the bottom of the composition. The side of the convent module consists - which is repeated three and a half times - three small clerestory windows side by side and another opening at the bottom. On the facade there is the central nave, higher, and the chapel, near which, on the right, there is a green tree. Blue sky.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
General Info
This work depicts the view of the Carmelite Convent in the Santa Teresa district in Rio de Janeiro as seen from a window of Portinaris atelier at Rua Teotônio Regadas 34 in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, where the artist lived from 1931 to 1932
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Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Height
38
Width
46
Annotation
Signed in bottom right corner "C. PORTINARI". Undated
