MOSTEIRO DE SÃO BENTO: A ARQUITETURA IMPONENTE NA PAISAGEM URBANA DO RIODE JANEIRO

This article constitutes a qualitative research, of the bibliographic review type and takes as a typoligical cutting the analysis of the Mosteiro de São Bento in Rio de Janeiro, occurred in the XVII century, and comprehending the espacility in the brazilian manneirist architecture.Your structures were deliberately changed from the principles of humanism based in the simplicity to an ascetic restraint and disequilibrium frigid effects.In that way, it manifests a scenery of the building's aspects, using the term mannerism in a sense that appoints three different stylistic moments: mannerism, baroque and rococo, cassifying these three styles characterized by compositions present in the work under study.