Pictoral religious journey

frei Miguel, the monk-painter of the Carthusians

Abstract

After sixty years of closure, the provisional opening of the Cartuxa Monastery of Santa Maria Scala Coeli in Évora made possible to appreciate, alive, the art of a monk-painter whose valence enabled the creation of a collection that is not limited to the religious theme but goes far beyond it.

The proposed reflection therefore intends to enunciate part of Frei Miguel's artistic production from a sensitivity lived in reclusion and translated into canvases of a strongly contemplative and luminous nature that make him an unusual portraitist and landscape artist.

In fact, the unique opportunity to appreciate some of his compositions elaborated in a Carthusian context was the axiom for a more comprehensive look at the work left by crossing a pictorial and religious journey in the space of a lifetime.