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May 8, 2021 · Gertrudes Altschul, a Jewish photographer born in Germany in 1904, fled her home country to escape Nazi persecution in 1939. She immigrated to São Paulo, Brazil, where she opened with her...
Dec 13, 2016 · Veridis Duchess Austria Visconti. My 17th great-grandmother was born into a noble family in trouble with the papacy. Veridis ( sometimes spelled Viridis) was born in Milan in 1352. Her father was excommunicated 1363 for opposing the Pope in Rome. She is buried at the Cistercian monastery in Sittich ,Obcina, Ljubljana, in modern and Slovenia.
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The first signs of Brazilian art can be found in hundreds of archeological sites spread across the national territory. These caves, which were used as shelters by our prehistorical ancestors, contained paintings made with minerals (like charcoal) and natural pigments extracted from both plant and animal sources(like blood and concentrated juices). ...
When the land that would soon be known as Brazil was invaded and colonized by the Portuguese in 1500, there approximately five million native indigenous people living in the country. Unfortunately, a great portion of the first inhabitants of Brazil was killed during the Portuguese invasion, and much of their culture was either lost or dilutedthroug...
Fast forward to the 1670s, and we’ll get to another pivotal moment in Brazilian art history. At that time, gold was being discovered in the state of Minas Gerais, and the areas that benefited from the gold mining would quickly gain the interest of the Catholic missionaries who came to the country with the Portuguese invasion. This resulted in the c...
At the beginning of the 19th century, when french general Napoleon Bonaparte’s armies invaded Portugal, the king of Portugal, D. João VI, saw himself forced to flee with his family and court to Brazil. The arrival of the Portuguese royal family would be another major landmark that changed the history of art in the country. The Portuguese Court was ...
Romanticism was an art movement born in Europe (more precisely in Italy, Germany, and England) at the end of the 18th century. It was popularized in Brazil by the hands of Gonçalves de Magalhães, a Brazilian writer born in Rio de Janeiro. In 1836, Gonçalves de Magalhães released a book called “Suspiros Poéticos e Saudades”, which would later be und...
In the final years of Dom Pedro II’s reign (and final moments of the Brazilian Monarchy), a new artistic movement was starting to rise in the country, led by a book released in 1881 called “O Mulato” by Brazilian author Aluísio de Azevedo. Aside from the political changes, the country was also going through major changes, as the Second Industrial R...
The Expressionist movement was a trend that presented a strong Avant-guard direction to the Arts, reverencing the subjectivity and the emotional value of the themes.Expressionism originated at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, arriving in Brazil in the early 1900s. Prominent in visual arts, architecture, movies, lit...
The term Modernism is used to designate the artistic manifestations that, following the rapid changes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tried to translate the new reality and the new ambitions that were imposed on the “modern human” and society. In Brazil, there was a clear attempt to get the country back on its feet in the political field...
In 1951, an event called Bienal was founded in São Paulo. In the 1960s and 1970s, Brazilian art began to be exhibited internationally, hitchhiking on the Bossa Nova’s newfound success. At the same time, technology was advancing like crazy, making artists from all over the world resourcing to computers in order to create their pieces. In the 1980s, ...
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Mar 25, 2024 · Christina Oiticica (born 23 November 1951 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian artist. She has been married to Paulo Coelho since 1980. Oiticica is known for using an exotic neoconcretist technique that is reminiscent of both land art and eco art, a technique that allows nature’s elements to act upon her works.
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Next, you will find part of the works exhibited in Art from Brasil until 1900 at MASP, from 26.3 to 6.6.2015. A painter, illustrator and engraver, Frans Post was born into a family of artists. He came to Brazil in 1637 at age 25 as part of Maurice of Nassau’s entourage in Pernambuco (1630-54).
Leopold III: marriage and offspring. Leopold was the founder of the branch of the dynasty from which all the Habsburgs of the Early Modern era were to trace their descent. In 1365 at the age of fourteen his brother Rudolf arranged for him to be married to Viridis Visconti, who was about his own age. The Visconti ruled over the extremely wealthy ...
"Viridis Visconti (1352–1414) was an Italian noblewoman, a daughter of Bernabò Visconti and his wife Beatrice Regina della Scala. By her marriage to Leopold III, Duke of Austria, Viridis was Duchess consort of Austria, Styria and Carinthia, she was also Countess consort of Tyrol." - (en.wikipedia.org 17.11.2019)
