Puppet Art Lagoa

With the opening of the first ceramics factories in Lagoa, in 1862, some of its employees started the production of crib dolls in domestic workshops, becoming the first dollers in the municipality of Lagoense. In this process, the tutelary figure of the puppet artist Luís da Luz Gouveia, who influenced by intellectuals who were part of the regionalist movement – namely the ethnographer Armando Côrtes-Rodrigues, the ethnologist Francisco Carreiro da Costa and the painter Domingos Rebelo, took on a prominent role – introduces regional pictures in the crib. It is in this context that the religiosity of the Azorean people, expressed in Lenten pilgrimages, in processions and in the festivities of Espírito Santo, as well as rural experiences, started to integrate the themes evident in the nativity scenes produced locally.

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