"Igreja Sao Pedro Dos Clerigos, 18c, Salvador, Brazil"watercolor 9" x 11" ©2001 Elroy Christenson
This church is one of several constructed in Salvador in the 17th and
18c in a Rococo style. This particular church only has one finished
spire because if they had built the other one the church would have
been taxed as a finished building. The Salvador churches look very
substantial from the exterior and resemble stone buildings in Europe.
They may have a stone facade but are, however, almost entirely made of
wood. They have very elaborately carved altars which are unblelievably
guilded in the Spanish or Portuguese style. Support columns are often
painted to look like marble on the interior. Ceiling paintings are
usually cracked along the board lengths in nearly all of the buildings.
