Connected histories between the Brazilian Amazon and Indian Goa: Antônio José Landi and the circulation of architectural culture models on the Portuguese Colonial Empire

The research investigates the movement of images of architectural traditions between territories of Portuguese dominion in Asia and the Amazon – especially in Goa, India, and the state of Pará, in Brazil – in the second half of the 18th century, based on the analysis of the architectural production of the Bolognese architect Antônio José Landi (1713-1791). It seeks to understand how these traditions were received and reinterpreted in quite different sociocultural contexts, although politically governed by the colonial expansionism of the Portuguese Crown, thereby connecting the realities of Goa and Pará. The main objects of analysis of this research are the two versions of an architectural project developed by Antônio José Landi for an annex chapel to the Palace of the Ataíde Teive family in Panjim, Goa, India (1770). The research explores how geographically disparate territories can respond, in their artistic and architectural productions, to the reception and re-elaboration of European models, based on the dynamics of imagery similarity and singularity guided by current cultural hybridisms, structured by historical and political bonds that connect them. Based on the mapping, analysis and publication of unprinted archival documentation dispersed in archives around the world, the research seeks to elucidate the complex negotiations and dynamics in the Iberian colonies in the light of the contributions of contemporary historiography, whose transdisciplinary matrix avoids Eurocentric molds and privileges the rhizomatic relationships of connected global histories (akin to Sanjay Subrahmanyam's connected history) and their cultural hybrids.