Pereira, José Carlos, 1970-Matos, Sérgio J. F. 1980-2018-01-112018-01-112017-03-152018-01-11http://hdl.handle.net/10451/30427This Dissertation seeks to respond to the problem of Idealization in the History of Sculpture, focusing on the Classical, Contemporary and Modern notion of mimesis, understood as imitation of nature, as imitation of the Idea and as imitation of artistic paradigms present in works of Art of Classical Antiquity... We postulate an analysis and approach of focus and of philosophical-sculptural nature, for a matter of capital importance, seeking to understand the cyclicity that guided the various aesthetic movements of intersignification of the Human Civilization, in relation to the concept of Ideal Beauty as Resemblance, and of Ideal Beauty as Sublime, according to a vision of mimesis as copy, and of mimesis as creationporEsculturaBelo (Estética)Ideal (Filosofia)Imitação (Estética)SublimeTeorias da artemaster thesis201649152