Escritos em pedra e bronze

Abstract

In a country of great literary traditions, the writers and their work have been, throughout history, one of the main vehicles for social and political change. Literature is perhaps the most precious asset of Portuguese culture. No wonder therefore that the authors of such a vast literary spoil have been, over time, often honored in public sculpture in Lisbon. Through the study of the monuments that evoke them in the city of Lisbon we may establish an overview of its iconography that, despite variations due to different approaches of each sculptor, follows a common denominator. The present study proposes a discovery journey of this referential that makes the sculpture of a poet or a writer in a meticulous work of refection about literature, about society and about live