Do retrato ao signo: a imagem como parte constitutiva de uma crença

Abstract

A century later the start of the Movimento do Contestado (1912-1916), the largest armed conflict of the twentieth century in Brazil, statues of the monk João Maria were placed in public areas of Santa Catarina State cities. In common, they presented several iconographic elements, which led us to examine the iconography of these public works and make a few remarks about the reasons of permanence and uses of a photograph supposedly drawn in the late nineteenth century. After a century, we tried to demonstrate that memory established from the old hermit is inseparable from the photographic image that served as a model for recent representations of the monk.