em Porto Alegre no Século XIX (cultural history, 1962), O Carnaval Porto-alegrense no Século XIX (cultural history, 1970), Colóquios com a minha Cidade (chronicles, 1974), and Imprensa Literária de Porto Alegre no Século XIX (cultural history, 1975). However, his work was not limited to the state capital, being the pioneer in writing the general history of arts in Rio Grande do Sul with his classic Artes Plásticas no Rio Grande do Sul (1971), which goes to the primitive sources of art in the state and traces a wide panorama of its development until the 20th century, to this day a fundamental reference and, in its wide scope, not yet outdated, a work that was complemented by many separate articles. Other works worth mentioning are Apontamentos para os estudo da indumentária no Rio Grande do Sul (1957) and Imprensa Caricata do Rio Grande do Sul no século XIX (1962), pioneer studies of their kind; the varied contributions he left for the series Fundamentos da Cultura Rio-Grandense, published in several volumes between 1950 and 1960, dealing among other aspects with foreign travelers, the press, and clothing in Rio Grande do Sul, and O Teatro São Pedro na Vida Cultural do Rio Grande do Sul (with Herbert Caro, Guilhermino César, and Paulo Moritz, 1975). Works History According to Maria Beatriz Papaléo, Damasceno approached History in a peculiar perspective, rejecting to paint the past with mythologies and focusing on popular and humorous aspects, creating an original portrait of the city that recovered information little valued by other historians, being, in her words, a "meticulous craftsman of the daily life" who left a "popular inventory of the city". But this does not diminish the interest in his research, whose seriousness and competence are widely recognized. According to Joana Figueiredo, "as an intellectual ahead of his time, the author already knew that not all history is made of myth and grandeur, but of stitches and lines, knots and buttons – with a few beads and turbans to give it color and joy." In works that are a mixture of chronicle and historical essay, such as Imagens Sentimentais da Cidade (1940, City of Porto Alegre Award) and Sacadas e Sacadinhas Porto-Alegrenses (1945), he interweaves his view of historian with his poetic side and his experience as a citizen, describing the changes in the urban scenario by the passage of time and the concomitant changes in the social