| Abstrakt: |
Christian sacred art establishes a distinct category in the realm of artistic production, as a material evidence of Man and its relation with the Sacred, characterized not only by its thematic and symbology, but also by its peculiar ritual application. Attending to the historical and artistic value of the ecclesiastic legacy in the Portuguese cultural heritage, this study analyses the museological practices around the goods of the Catholic Church affected to the cult and the devotion, especially its inclusion in the sphere of the museums and its use in exhibitions, since the beginning of the liberal period, affirmation moment of the museum as a public utility institution, until the present, marked by an increasing dynamics in this domain. In structural terms, it settles on two distinct goals that complement each other in a convergent progression from the historical to the theoretical and from the general to the individual, looking to understand the sacred art museological phenomena in Portugal through its permanent and temporary dimensions. In a historical scope, the evolution of the sacred art museology it's traced from the inventory and study of the museums and temporary exhibitions, setting forth the key-moments and its relation with the Country, Church and Museology History, in general, regarding not only the exhibitional process but also the remaining museological functions collected from the international definition of museum, as well as the ones specifically granted to this kind of museums. In particular, the motivations and the relation between the temporary and permanent exhibitions and the actions developed on the safeguard of the cultural goods of the Church and its inter-influences are examined. Inside of a more theoretical plan, the relation between sacred art and the museological disciplines, considering the term of a ritual and devotional function and the beginning of a new full existence as museological object, and what happens when the Church itself is the musealizer entity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
