The Altarpiece of the Convent of “Madre de Deus de Sá”. Retable and Tabernacle Ensemble in Permanent Exhibition, Aveiro Museum, Santa Joana

Abstract

In the seventeenth century, the place of Sá was a territory under the civil jurisdiction of the Comarca de Ílhavo and resulted from a natural extension of those lands, as if it was an enclave, between the agricultural areas of the Villa de Aveiro. It is from the Monastery of Madre de Deus de Sá, house of the Religious of the Third Order of San Francisco, that we propose to speak using as a methodology the visual and face-to-face reading of the retabular and sacral assembly on display at the Aveiro Museum, Santa Joana. Although, this altarpiece does not subsist in its entirety. We will cross the reading of the remaining elements of the retable set, with the work order for painting, upholstery and gilding of the main altarpiece of the Monastery of Sá signed between the Painter Pedro Monteiro Ferreira, of Porto and the Religious of Sá, in 1688.