Throughout history, art has been inspired around the theme of religion to produce and reproduce countless works of art, regardless of whether or not they are of great artistic quality.

Sculpture, understood as an art that represents plastic images in total or partial relief, was the most vulgarized form that the human being arranged to establish a relation with the Divine as an act of faith. In the religious sphere, the imaginary is defined as a reproduction of images with a cultic function, that is, the junction of sculpture with faith results in images. 

However, as a result of the passage of time, we do not always have concrete elements that allow us to clearly and accurately identify the representation of the image, due to the absence of clearly specific attributes, as a consequence of the lack of preventive conservation and unconcern in relation to heritage, until recently, was [almost] non-existent.

For being reunited a set of high-quality images dating from the late 16th to the 20th centuries, the room located in the bell tower of the church of Santa Cruz is called Núcleo da Imaginária, having the most prominent role in space Exposing the most relevant events in the history of the Catholic Church that occurred throughout the centuries, before and after Jesus, the center of the History of Christianity, to which all events converge.