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Author Biography

Percival Tirapeli is a full professor of the history of Brazilian art at the Institute of Arts of Unesp, as well as MA and PhD from ECA-USP. He is the author of more than 20 books with an emphasis on Baroque and painting. He published Architecture and Urbanism in the Vale do Paraíba (Edições Sesc/Unesp, 2014), São Paulo – Arts and Ethnicities (2001) and Colonial Sacred Art (org.), both with Imprensa Oficial do Estado/Unesp, and Churches in São Paulo: Baroque and Rococo (2003, Sérgio Milliet Prize from the Brazilian Association of Art Critics). With Arte Integrada/Unesp he published Sacred Heritage in Latin America I and II (2015 and 2017). With Metalivros he published The most beautiful churches in Brazil with Wolfgang Pfeiffer, Celebrations of Faith with photos by Rosa Galditano, World Heritage in Brazil and Baroque Churches in Brazil. With Editora Nacional he published History of Art in Brazil, for young readers, in five volumes. He is also a curator of exhibitions and author of catalogues: Sacred Art: The Genesis of Faith in the New World (Palácio Bandeirantes, 2007) and Fragments: Collections by Rafael Schunk (2016), both at the Museum of Sacred Art. He gave lectures on Brazilian art in Seville, Burgos, Santa Cruz, Lisbon, Rouen, Bergen and several congresses in Brazil and abroad. He was the vice-president of ABCA and director of special projects at Icomos/Brazil. He is a full counsellor to the Artistic Collection of the Government Palaces of São Paulo and Condephaat. As an artist he participated in two International Biennials in São Paulo (1977 and 1985), and his biography is published in Art about Art: Testimonies in the Work of Percival Tirapeli (Arte Integrada, 2015).