Francisco Vieira Toste, better known as Chico Bogango, or as he preferred, Mogango, was born in S. Sebastião (February 1, 1891 – October 10, 1974).
A skilled carpenter and joiner, he was primarily distinguished as a painter, creating numerous canvases, banners, and flags—mostly with religious inspiration—executing mural paintings in “impérios” and private homes, and decorating floats, altars, and “impérios.”
J.H. Santos Barros, in Lavrador das Ilhas I (1981), describes him as an “extraordinary manipulator of the objects and figures that form the basis of the island’s popular festivities (Holy Spirit, bullfights): the adornments of banners, masts, altars, and crowns,” whose “panels, sometimes with religious figures (S. Sebastião, Santo Cristo), sometimes depicting a bullfight on a rope, amazed with their spontaneity, joyful colors, and purity of conception.”
This depiction of Senhor Santo Cristo was donated to the Museu de Angra do Heroísmo by Maria de Fátima Lourenço on April 19, 2019, and is currently part of the museum’s Fine Arts Collection.
