Below is a selection of archival records that have been published as photographic reproductions or are still extant in their archives. Much more manuscript evidence has been unearthed than is described here.
Documentation of Antonio Francisco Lisboa's WorkThe documentary evidence listed below is transcribed and largely reproduced in
Rodrigo M. F. de Andrade, Contribuição para o Estudo da Obra do Aleijadinho,” Revista do Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional 2, (1938), 255-297. Church of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Sabará1773-1774 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa 168,000 reis (work performed not specified)
Church of Nossa Senhora das Merces e Perdões, Ouro Preto 1775 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa 6 oitavas (work performed not specified)
Church of São Francisco, Ouro Preto1771-1772 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa for sculpting the stone of the pulpits 20,400 reis
1773-1774 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa for “Jornais no Barrete” 73,200 reis 1774-1775 payment to Antonio Francisco for the design of the new portal 14,400 reis 1778-1779 payment to Jeronimo Nicolau for the design made by Antonio Francisco for the tribune of the high altar 24,000 reis 1789 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa for the altar stones 1 ½ oitavas 1790 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa for the altarpiece of the high altar 50 oitavas 1790-1791 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa for the altarpiece of the high altar 425 oitavas 2 vintens 1791-1792 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa for the altarpiece of the high altar 280 oitavas 1792-1793 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa for the altarpiece of the high altar 233 ¾ oitavas 1793-1794 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa for the altarpiece of the high altar 469 ½ oitavas 1 vintem 1794 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa and Jose Pereira Arouca for assessing the finished church 145 oitavas or 174,000 reis 1829 Antonio Francisco Lisboa mentioned as deceased and as the author of the design of the lateral altars Church of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Ouro Preto1808 Antonio Francisco Lisboa completed the lateral altars
Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos, Congonhas do Campo1796 receipt of payment for work on the sculptures of the Stations of the Cross, signed Antonio Francisco Lisboa 177 ¾ oitavas
1796 payment to Antonio Francisco for the sculptures of the Stations of the Cross 177 ¾ oitavas 1797 payment to Antonio Francisco for the sculptures of the Stations of the Cross 364 /21 oitavas 1798 receipt of payment for work on the sculptures of the Stations of the Cross, signed Antonio Francisco Lisboa 355 ¾ oitavas 6 vintens 1798 payment to Antonio Francisco for the sculptures of the Stations of the Cross 355 ¾ oitavas 6 vintens 1799 receipt of payment for work on the sculptures of the Stations of the Cross, signed Antonio Francisco Lisboa 395 ¾ oitavas 4 vintens 1799 payment to Antonio Francisco for the sculptures of the Stations of the Cross 395 ¾ oitavas 4 vintens 1800 receipt of payment for work on the stone prophets, signed Antonio Francisco Lisboa 221 oitavas 2 vintens 1800 payment to Antonio Francisco for the prophets 221 oitavas 2 vintens 1802 receipt of payment for work on the prophets, signed Antonio Francisco Lisboa 75 ¾ oitavas 1802 payment to Antonio Francisco for the prophets 75 ¾ oitavas 5 vintens 1804 payment to Antonio Francisco Lisboa for the box of the organ 80 oitavas 4 vintens 1805 payment to Antonio Francisco for the prophets 80 oitavas 1808 payment to Antonio Francisco for candlesticks 4 oitavas |
Documentation Plausibly Related to Antonio Francisco Lisboa1730 Antonio, son of Isabel, slave of Manoel Francisco da Costa, was baptized and freed (reproduced in José Mariano Filho, Antonio Francisco Lisboa, 1945)
1776 Antonio Francisco Lisboa, carpenter, pardo (mixed race), single, 37 years of age, born in Vila Rica, called to the southern border of Brazil to fight against the Spanish (reproduced in Geraldo Dutra de Moraes, O Aleijadinho de Vila Rica, 1977) 1814 Antonio Francisco Lisboa passed away, pardo (mixed race) single man, 76 years of age (Book of obituaries no. 5, Matriz de Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Antônio Dias, Ouro Preto) |
