(PUC – SP) “This is how the prophets confabulate, in a fantastic meeting, blown by the air of Minas. Where else could we conceive of such a meeting, if not in Minas Gerais, which is the very paradox, so mystical that it transforms the crude fever of diamonds, gold and colored stones into implements and pulpits and kneelers?” (ANDRADE, Carlos Drummond de. Colloquium of Statues. In: MELLO, S. mineiro baroque. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1985.)
The origin of this contradictory feature that the poet claims to characterize society in Minas Gerais refers to a context in which there was:
a) the bilateral reaffirmation of the Treaty of Tordesillas between Portugal and Spain and the growth of racial miscegenation in the colonial environment.
b) the downgrading of the land distribution policy in the colony and the validity of a rationalist conception of city planning.
c) the diversification of productive activities in the colony and the construction of an artistic and architectural complex that singled out the main mining region.
d) the displacement of the productive axis from the northeast to the central regions of the colony and the development of an aesthetic that sought to reproduce European Romanesque constructions.
e) the expansion of the Brazilian colonial territory and the introduction, in Minas, of the art known as gothic, especially in the decoration of the interiors of churches.