A hispanidade em São Paulo: da casa rural à Capela de Santo Antônio

Second edition of classic architectural work. In the 1970s, Aracy Amaral decided to follow the traces of a path little explored by historians of Brazilian architecture: evidences of Spanish influence, coming directly, or by familiarity with Spanish-American art in art and architecture in the state of São Paulo . Thus, he made a long trip through Colombia and Ecuador, where he photographed everything that dialogues with the Paulista buildings. As a result of this research, Hispano in São Paulo - from the rural house to the Santo Antônio Chapel was originally published in 1981 and won the Jabuti Human Sciences Award the following year. Thirty-six years after its first edition, Itaú Cultural promoted the launch of this second edition of the work. Hispanidade in São Paulo reveals an intense commercial and cultural exchange with Spain and Spanish America, since the beginning of the installation of the Captaincy of Saint Vincent, with the presence of Spanish and Portuguese shipwrecked who lived on the coast of São Paulo. The Spanish presence in the state persisted until the end of the seventeenth century, remaining thereafter through the integration of several families and their descendants. The author also detects habits that persisted in cultural manifestations - such as constructions - that the Paulistas took to Minas Gerais and Goiás in the 18th century. Still in the nineteenth century, the botanist, French naturalist and traveler Saint-Hilaire, who traveled for a few years in Brazil, having written important books on the Brazilian customs and landscapes of that time, recorded peculiarities among the population of São Paulo.