Canvas support as materialization of religious-pedagogic propaganda

摘要

In Portugal, over the centuries, religion used painting on canvas to evoke its sacred mysteries. Despite paintings are primarily pictorial, their back can reveal a lot about their contribute for the religious-pedagogic propaganda of the Catholic Church. Based on a interdisciplinary collaboration among art history, science and on the topic of the material and technology of the weaved support in the Portuguese painting, this paper focuses on how canvas appears to be an exceptional medium for visual materialization of such power and glory.