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Rodolfo Amoedo
(born in Salvador, Bahia on December 11, 1857; died in Rio de Janeiro on May 31, 1941) was a Brazilian history painter. He began his career as an artist in 1873 as a student of Victor Meirelles. In 1878 he won the first prize at the Brazilian Academy, which allowed him to travel to Paris, where he lived from 1879 to 1887 studying at the École des Beaux Arts. He was a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and also worked with Paul-Jacques-Aime Baudry. He was a professor and later director of the Brazilian Academy, renamed School of Fine Arts ou Escola Nacional de Belas Artes at the fall of the Brazilian Empire. His students include Eliseu Visconti. He died forgotten and so poor his friends had to help the widow pay for his funeral. His paintings still hang at the National Museum Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro.
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Painting ID:: 82531
Portrait of Joao Timoteo da Costa
Date 1908(1908)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 49.5 x 29.7 cm (19.5 x 11.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 83697
Desdemona
Date 1892(1892)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 97 x 130.5 cm (38.2 x 51.4 in)
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Painting ID:: 83957
Jesus Christ in Capernaum
Date 1883(1883)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 63 x 79 cm (24.8 x 31.1 in)
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Painting ID:: 84239
Portrait of the artist's sister-in-law
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 32.7 x 24.3 cm (12.9 x 9.6 in)
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Painting ID:: 84242
Portrait of a young man - Study of a head
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 41 x 29.7 cm (16.1 x 11.7 in)
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Rodolfo Amoedo
(born in Salvador, Bahia on December 11, 1857; died in Rio de Janeiro on May 31, 1941) was a Brazilian history painter. He began his career as an artist in 1873 as a student of Victor Meirelles. In 1878 he won the first prize at the Brazilian Academy, which allowed him to travel to Paris, where he lived from 1879 to 1887 studying at the École des Beaux Arts. He was a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and also worked with Paul-Jacques-Aime Baudry. He was a professor and later director of the Brazilian Academy, renamed School of Fine Arts ou Escola Nacional de Belas Artes at the fall of the Brazilian Empire. His students include Eliseu Visconti. He died forgotten and so poor his friends had to help the widow pay for his funeral. His paintings still hang at the National Museum Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro.
. Related Artists to Rodolfo Amoedo: | Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz | Hippolyte Boulenger | William Barak | stefan Dimitrescu | robert delaunay |
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