The author enhances the social and cultural meaning of Eclecticism, beyond the domain of Architecture and the levei of stylistic phenomena. This frame of reference allows her to understand in a historical key its scenographical tendencies and the taste for magnificence, expressiveness and monumentality, as well as its links with the pasto Some specific features of Brazilian Eclecticism are then described, as its anti-colonialistic bias. Neoclassical movement is included as a late manifestation of Eclecticism which survives until the establishment of a new kind of relationship with modernity - mediated by technology.
Eclecticism; Eclecticism and architecture (Brazil); Eclecticism; modernity; modernization