Rheumatic conditions have affected, among others, emperors, kings, politicians, religious personages and artists. Knowledge about their articular illnesses has increased with a multiplicity of source documents on these personalities: ancient texts, letters, drawings, paintings, sculptures, songs and pictures. Here the case of the most important Brazilian visual artist is described, namely the sculptor Aleijadinho (1730?-1814), who, besides suffering an extremely disability condition, did not give up performing artistic works throughout his whole life. This study proposes a discussion about the possibility that such an artist has presented a clinical profile of scleroderma.

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O Aleijadinho. Sua vida, sua obra, seu gênio

Could Aleijadinho have suffered from scleroderma

Reconstroi a trajetoria do bispo dom frei Cipriano de Sao Jose e do jardim historico que construiu em seu palacio, na cidade de Mariana (MG), no final do seculo XVIII e inicio do seguinte. A area, com pomar e outros tipos vegetais, como a maioria dos quintais das casas mineiras do periodo, sofreu significativa transformacao e tornou-se um classico jardim europeu. Ordenado com preocupacao estetica, no final do periodo colonial era um espaco admiravel, representante do processo de encantamento da ilustrada elite metropolitana pela historia natural e pelos conhecimentos de botânica. Variada documentacao foi utilizada para reconstruir a trajetoria dessa area verde bem como a de seu idealizador, o ilustrado dom frei Cipriano de Sao Jose.

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A Portuguese manor in rural Brazil; or The saga of the enlightened Dom Frei Cipriano and the garden of the former episcopal palace in the late eighteenth century.

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O Aleijadinho. Sua vida, sua obra, seu gênio

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Could Aleijadinho have suffered from scleroderma

A Portuguese manor in rural Brazil; or The saga of the enlightened Dom Frei Cipriano and the garden of the former episcopal palace in the late eighteenth century.