To get to know the inside, you need to visit some of its most illustrious spaces. We highlight tree sports which are considered worth visiting: the Theatro da Paz, the Arte Sacra Museum and the Basilica de Nazaré. Three temples of pure beauty, historical and architectural curiosities.
The city of Belém preserves a great amount of remains left by the Bélle Époque. The most important one is the Theatro da Paz, built with the wealth brought from the exportation of latex in the so-called the Rubber Cicle. It is also in this period, the construction of Basílica de Nazaré which will be one hundred years in 2009, dated from the launching of its fundamental stone in 1909. On the other hand, the Santo Alexandre church and the Palácio Episcopal are much older, dating from 1719 and today they congregate the Museu de Arte Sacra do Pará, located in Feliz Lusitânia Square Complex.
THEATRO DA PAZ
The Theatro da Paz is inspired according to Teatro Scalla de Milão (Milan-Italy). On its sides, the patios are surrounded by columns and staircases giving access to Praça da República. At the entrance hallway, the English cast iron of the arches of the doors and the French bronze statues, representing music, poetry, tragedy, comedy, give us the signs of European culture.
In 1905, the Da Paz Theater underwent a huge reformation. The door which gave way to the spectacles room was removed with the purpose of improving the acoustic of spectacles, considered one of the best of Brazil. On its place, there is a big-sized French crystal mirror now. It was also added statues made of French and, on the walls, enameled iron plates.
It is impossible not to be amazed with Theatro da Paz. The Spectacles Room, with 900 seats, has chairs made of wood and straw keeping the style from that period. Besides the auditorium, the seats for the public there are also in the balcony, mezzanine, porches, galleries and the upper mezzanine.
Looking up the central ceiling, there is a luster, made of American Bronze, and a painting in fresco, which reproduces figures Greek-Roman mythology. The god Apollo is conducting goddess Aphordite and the muses of arts to Amazon. There is also a painting is portraying regional motives, dated in 1960. Enter Theatro da Paz is like traveling back in time. The Foyer is very elegant, where the nobles has their balls and recitals, it is all decorated with mirrors and luster in French crytal and two busts of composers from that time: Carlos Gomes and Henrique Gurjão. The Neoclassical walls were painted by Italian artists.
Currently, the Theatro da Paz is the biggest and the most luxurious of the North Region, renowned as one of theater-monument of the country, declared by IPHAN in 1963.
THE ARTE SACRA MUSEUM
The Santo Alexandre Church built by the Jesuits, raised in eighteenth Century. The Palácio Episcopal, where the Archbishopric used to be. The two building are interconnected, and both a blend of various stylistic moments in Brazil. We can find some of these styles such as: proto-baroque, later baroque and the Pombal neoclassic.
In 1998, the buildings were restored and adapted to house the Museu de Arte Sacra, whose beauty of the façade is enhanced by the lights, inside it, we can also find the Galeria Fidanza. The Café do Museu and the Boutique Empório das Artes, where it is possible to buy regional products. The church of Santo Alexandre maintains its liturgical function, but it is also a drama-musical space.
The main door of the church is made of wood, with frams made of lioz stone. One the inside, there is a unique nave, with illuminated pulpits and high altar, transept and six side chapels. The chancel screens were produced by the Jesuits during the colonial period in two styles, the “Nacional Português” and “D. João V”. The wall, on the left of the transept, exposes remains of ancient structures that serve as frame to images of Saint Alexander, Saint Bartholomew and Saint Michael, besides another fourth image of a Jesuit Saint which was found, at the time of the reform, in deterioration state.
The sacristy, with the same length of the main chapel is located on the left arm of the nave. The decoration has parts coming from Europe e other parts produced by the Jesuits and Indians.
Being the only one of the genre in Brazil, the Museum of Sacra Art houses, among other things, religious sculptures dated from the three firsts centuries of Brazilian history of art. The museum contains almost 400 objects among the baroque imaginary, liturgical and archeological objects and silverware. Part of this collection belonged to the Jesuits, the other part was acquired from heirs of a collector or through donation. The sacred objects are the most charming. They were restored and underwent through a process of inventory.
In the fist area of circulation of the museum, there are canvas with sacred themes, belonging to collection of Cúria Metropolitana. In the first room the Pietá opens the baroque imaginary show. All the images are illuminated by a sophisticated project of light technique. Other baroque imaginaries which sdraw attention are those of São José de Botas and Nossa Senhora de Rosário, both sculptured in polychrome wood and dated from the Eighteenth century.
What a visitor must see is the room where there is the installation that exposes the Crucified Christ. The illumination shows parts of the images, creating beams of light surrounding it. The silverware room is also impressive. They displayed an a dark velvet base and optical fiber illumination, properly identified, it helps the understanding of the visitors abouth its origin and functions. One of the rarities shown in the Museu de Arte Sacra is the image of the Dead Lord, this work waited 40 years for a repair. The image belonged to Capela dos Passos, projected by Antonio Landi, in Campina district. But its Whereabouts was unknown for over 30 year until it was rescued in 2006, by Secretaria de Estado de Cultura, in Rio de Janeiro, in the hands of a private collector.
FONT: City Of Belém
By: Bianca da Silva Gaspar / Marcus Vinicius Wanzeller
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