From the Gold of the Earth to Music

Brazil is at the heart of the Baroque universe. This enormous country found, in Baroque art, a visceral expression of its profound identity. Received Baroque, assimilated and restored Baroque. One can thus resume Brazil’s presence in the cultural world since five centuries. It is no doubt a unique situation. No other country in the world shares the privilege of this quasi-exclusive vocation: that of personifying Baroque art and of giving a multiple image of the very idea of Baroque.