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Pedro Americo
de Figueiredo e Melo (Areia, Brazil, 29 April 1843 - Florence, Italy, 7 October 1905) was one of the most important academic painters of Brazil. He was also a writer and a teacher.
He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1854, where he was granted a scholarship to study in the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (Imperial Academy of Fine Arts). Later he furthered his studies in Europe, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, being a pupil of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Hippolyte Flandrin and Carle-Horace Vernet, winning much praise for his paintings, and achieving the Doctorate in Sciences at the University of Brussels, in 1868.
Returning to Brazil, he produced a great series of masterpieces, including one of the most well known works of art in Brazil: Independence or Death!, depicting the moment when Prince Peter declared the country independent from Portugal, a work that has illustrated History books for elementary schools in Brazil for decades. Living mostly in Florence, Italy but traveling extensively back and forth from Rio de Janeiro, Pedro Am??rico managed to work also as a lecturer and an art historian.
He married Carlota de Ara??jo Porto-alegre (1844?C1918), daughter of painter and diplomat Manuel de Ara??jo Porto-alegre, and they had children. Knighted by the German Crown he was also Great Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. With the proclamation of the Republic in Brazil in 1889, he was elected a deputy of the National Assembly.
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Peace and Concord
1902(1902)
Oil on canvas
300 x 431 cm (118.1 x 169.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 78813
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Peace_and_Concord
1902(1902)
Oil on canvas
300 x 431 cm (118.1 x 169.7 in)
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Fala do Trono
1872(1872)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 79636
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Fala_do_Trono
1872(1872)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in)
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Independency or death
Oil on Canvas painting by Pedro Amxrico (1888).
Date 1888(1888)
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Painting ID:: 80555
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Independency_or_death
Oil on Canvas painting by Pedro Amxrico (1888).
Date 1888(1888)
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The Emperors speech
1872(1872)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 81024
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The_Emperors_speech
1872(1872)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in)
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Peace and Concord
1902(1902)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 300 x 431 cm (118.1 x 169.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 81892
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Peace_and_Concord
1902(1902)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 300 x 431 cm (118.1 x 169.7 in)
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Pedro_Americo
de Figueiredo e Melo (Areia, Brazil, 29 April 1843 - Florence, Italy, 7 October 1905) was one of the most important academic painters of Brazil. He was also a writer and a teacher.
He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1854, where he was granted a scholarship to study in the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (Imperial Academy of Fine Arts). Later he furthered his studies in Europe, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, being a pupil of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Hippolyte Flandrin and Carle-Horace Vernet, winning much praise for his paintings, and achieving the Doctorate in Sciences at the University of Brussels, in 1868.
Returning to Brazil, he produced a great series of masterpieces, including one of the most well known works of art in Brazil: Independence or Death!, depicting the moment when Prince Peter declared the country independent from Portugal, a work that has illustrated History books for elementary schools in Brazil for decades. Living mostly in Florence, Italy but traveling extensively back and forth from Rio de Janeiro, Pedro Am??rico managed to work also as a lecturer and an art historian.
He married Carlota de Ara??jo Porto-alegre (1844?C1918), daughter of painter and diplomat Manuel de Ara??jo Porto-alegre, and they had children. Knighted by the German Crown he was also Great Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. With the proclamation of the Republic in Brazil in 1889, he was elected a deputy of the National Assembly.
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