Manoel da Costa Ataíde, better known as Mestre Ataíde (1762 to 1830), was a Brazil

Brazil

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ian painter, sculptor, gilder and teacher.

He was an important artist of the baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 school in Minas Gerais and had a major influence on painting in the region, with many students and followers. His method of composition, particularly in perspective works on church ceilings, continued to be used until the middle of the nineteenth century. Contemporary documents often refer to him as a teacher of painting. In 1818 Ataíde tried without success to obtain official permission to found an art school in Mariana, his home town. He owned technical manuals and theoretical tracts such as Andrea Pozzo

Andrea Pozzo

Andrea Pozzo was an Italian Jesuit Brother, Baroque painter and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician. He was best known for his grandiose frescoes using illusionistic technique called quadratura, in which architecture and fancy are intermixed...

's "Perspectivae Pictorum Architectorum" from which he must have studied technique.

His art is characterised by the use of bright colours, especially blue.

He was a contemporary and colleague of Antonio Francisco Lisboa (Aleijadinho). In the period 1781 to 1818 he completed and gilded Aleijadinho’s images for the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos in Congonhas

Congonhas

Congonhas is a historical Brazilian city located in the state of Minas Gerais. It is situated south from Belo Horizonte, the capital of state of Minas Gerais, by the highway BR-040...

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Works

• Painting of the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Glória of 1742 in Ressaca, Carandai
  Carandaí
  Carandaí is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. The population in 2007 22,240 people in a total area of 486 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Campo das Vertentes and to the microregion of Barbacena....
  
  , Minas Gerais.
• Paintings in the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi
  Church of Saint Francis of Assisi (Ouro Preto)
  The Church of Saint Francis of Assisi is a Rococo Catholic church in Ouro Preto, Brazil.Its erection began in 1766 after a design by the great Brazilian architect and sculptor Antônio Francisco Lisboa, the so-called Aleijadinho, who also designed the carved decorations inside, which were only...
  
   in Ouro Preto
  Ouro Preto
  -History:Founded at the end of the 17th century, Ouro Preto was originally called Vila Rica, or "rich village," the focal point of the gold rush and Brazil's golden age in the 18th century under Portuguese rule....
  
   carried out between 1801 and 1812. The "glorification of the Virgin", painted on wood in the roof of the main nave, his best known work.
• Interior of the presbytery of the Church of St. Anthony in Santa Barbara
  Santa Bárbara, Minas Gerais
  Santa Bárbara is a Brazilian city founded in the year of 1704 and located in the state of Minas Gerais — 100 kilometers away from the capital Belo Horizonte. The main industry of Santa Bárbara is tourism. The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of...
  
  , 1806;
• "The Last Supper" in the college of Caraça, 1828;
• Ceiling of the presbytery of the Church of St Anthony in Itaverava
  Itaverava
  Itaverava is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Conselheiro Lafaiete.-See also:* List of municipalities in Minas Gerais...
  
  , 1811;
• Ceiling of the presbytery of the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, in Mariana, 1823.