Pedro Americo Huiler la Reproduction de TableauAll Pedro Americo Oil Paintingsde 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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| 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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ID de tableau:: 73526 Cavalo morto Cavalo morto Date 1875(1875) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 40 X 51 cm (15.75 X 20.08 in) cyf Date 1875(1875) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 40 X 51 cm (15.75 X 20.08 in) cyf |
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ID de tableau:: 76680 The Emperor's speech The Emperor's speech 1872(1872) Oil on canvas 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in) cjr 1872(1872) Oil on canvas 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in) cjr |
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ID de tableau:: 77080 Independency or death Independency or death "Independency or death." Despiction of the declaration of the Brazilian independence by Prince Pedro (later Emperor Pedro I) on 7 September 1822. Oil on Canvas painting by Pedro Americo (1888). cjr "Independency or death." Despiction of the declaration of the Brazilian independence by Prince Pedro (later Emperor Pedro I) on 7 September 1822. Oil on Canvas painting by Pedro Americo (1888). cjr |
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ID de tableau:: 77809 The Emperor's speech The Emperor's speech 1872(1872) Oil on canvas 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in) cjr 1872(1872) Oil on canvas 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in) cjr |
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ID de tableau:: 78587 Emperor s speech Emperor s speech 1872(1872) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in) cyf 1872(1872) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in) cyf |
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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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