Architecture of the Sé Cathedral (São Paulo): analysis and history
The Sé Cathedral, or the Metropolitan Cathedral of São Paulo, was the first church built in São Paulo and is considered one of the two greatest neo-Gothic monuments in the world.
Therefore, the final result will be achieved, or the temple was rebuilt three times since its first building (in 1591), and the architectural project went through several problems at its completion.
To Cathedral
In the last version, to which page we can contemplate, the Cathedral of I know was protected by German hair Maximilian Emil Hehl, at the time professor of Architecture at the Polytechnic School.
Or monument is recognized as two major neo-gothic temples of the world, a title that justifies its impressive dimensions.
Dimensions of the Igreja
The Cathedral was 46 meters long, 111 meters high and a dome 65 meters high.
The towers are 92 meters each and their interior or temple has the capacity to shelter about a thousand people.
The construction of the building was made of solid granite and our finishes were used for 800 tons of marble.
It is to notice ainda or great organ, or major in Latin America, manufactured in Milão by the Balbiani & Bossi industry. The instrument has five manual keyboards, 329 commands, 120 registers and 12 thousand tubes with mouths with relays fitted to me.
Architecture
The church was shaped like a Latin cross, it had five naves and a transept with a dome on top of the cross. Na façade we can contemplate a main portal surmounted by a large pinkish one. Two tall towers flanking the façade.
The neo-gothic or architectural style that influenced the work more, but this can also be considered as being eclectic architecture, pois combines elements of different styles and times.
This fact is most evident in the inclusion of a concrete dome on or over a cross, of Renaissance influence. It was inspired by the grandiose dome of Santa Maria del Fiore de Florença, projected by Filippo Brunelleschi.
More is the influence of Gothic revivalism than more about the construction of the Cathedral. Different examples can be found in the use of architectural elements such as the vault of the wavy cross or the broken arch.
Also pinkish and large janelas (in the shape of a broken arch) decorated with vitrais, são images that mark the Gothic style.
You vitrais possess great artistic and iconographic wealth. Neles portrayed biblical passages and historical events such as two Portuguese men in Brazil. A majority of them were entrusted and traced to Italy. Breeders formed artists such as Max Ingrand, Francesco Bencivenga and Gilda Nagni.
Despite the main influence, they have been the great European cathedrals of medieval times, Characteristics of the Brazilian culture are present, differentiating the works from their most distant countries. tempo and no space.
The capitals of the colunas are, for example, represented animals of the Brazilian fauna, such as tatu, and plants such as passion fruit or jabuticaba.
In the Cathedral there are several bronze sculptures and also marble sculptures assisted by Francisco Leopoldo, irmão do arcebispo Dom Duarte Leopoldo e Silva, or main responsible for construction da I know.
To the crypt of the Cathedral of Sé
On the altar-mor is located in the crypt, where several figures from the history of São Paulo, and also from Brazil, were found buried.
He who is buried or Chief Tibiriçá, or first converted Indian and whipped Jesuit hairs José de Anchieta and Leonardo Nunes. This was an ally of two Portuguese and played an important role in the São Paulo city foundation.
Construction history
The first version of the Igreja was built in 1591 in Pilão Taipa, a technique of compressing the earth in the form of wood (taipa).
In 1745, contudo, à "velha Sé" was attributed to the category of Cathedral. As the construction of the first building was done using a rudimentary technique and few standards, it is determined that the second version of the building is needed, exactly not the same place.
Barely in 1913 it started to build the church as we know it. The work was finished just 41 years ago.
This time, as it was not considered possible to its construction not the same local from the previous days (Largo dos Curros), a new cathedral was built in Praça da Sé, being the old temple demolished.
You Construction materials were entrusted and traced by Europe. This fato ended up representing the main obstacle to the completion of the work, because of the great duas World Wars (1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945) will end up considerably delaying the work of construction.
To Cathedral foi inaugurated on January 25, 1954, not the fourth centenary of the city of São Paulo, but still unfinished.
On the occasion of the inauguration, it was still missing the construction of two main towers, which were barely completed early in the 70s.
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