A linguagem simbólica: ut pictura poesis no sermão de Nossa Senhora da Conceição pelo jesuíta Antônio de Sá (1658)

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on literature and visual culture based on the structuring principle of the artist/writer's practice, present from Antiquity to the 18th century, called ut pictura poesis, using for this purpose the discourse of the preacher Antônio de Sá, resorting to his sermon of Our Lady of the Conception, preached in the Igreja Matriz de Recife (1658), to extract the narrated images and create a debate on the intersections with visual representations through the similar themes in both arts. With this objective, the methods used were the structural and literary analysis of the orator's sermon, in which the base sermon for the article was found, as well as bibliographical research, which collaborated in encompassing the themes of the Society of Jesus, sermonistic literature, the 17th century Baroque and theories of analysis of works of art. Therefore, it is proposed, through the extraction of its themes and narrated images, to contextualize it through the worldview of the period and visual representations that dialogue with the images uttered, with the intention of conceiving the meaning given to such representations. This connection helps to lead the pictorial and sculptural styles to be seen as styles that equally come from the intellect and ideas.