Aleijadinho (12)


Source: WTL academic image archive.
Humanities questions: (A) What Old Testament (Tanakh) prophet is depicted in Aleijadinho's statue seen here at the Basilica do Bom Jesus do Matozinho in Congonhas do Campo, Brazil? (B) What does the animal at the prophet's feet symbolize? (C) What personage and what story is being told here? (D) What (ethnic) features does this prophet have? (E) What æsthetic elements are characteristic of the time and place and humanistic period in which this statue was created?