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Pedro Americo
Passagem do chaco
1871
Oil on canvas
198 ?? 240 cm (77.95 ?? 94.49 in)
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Pedro Americo
The Night with the Genii of Study and Love
1886(1886)
Oil on canvas
260 ?? 195 cm (102.36 ?? 76.77 in)
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Pedro Americo
Independence or Death
1888(1888)
Oil on canvas
415 ?? 760 cm (163.39 ?? 299.21 in)
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Pedro Americo
Dead horse
1875(1875)
Oil on canvas
40 X 51 cm (15.75 X 20.08 in)
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Pedro Americo
Passagem do chaco
1871
Oil on canvas
198 X 240 cm (77.95 X 94.49 in)
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Pedro Americo
Cavalo morto
Date 1875(1875)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 40 X 51 cm (15.75 X 20.08 in)
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Pedro Americo
The Emperor's speech
1872(1872)
Oil on canvas
288 ?? 205 cm (113.4 ?? 80.7 in)
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Pedro Americo
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 Am??rico (1888).
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Pedro Americo
The Emperor's speech
1872(1872)
Oil on canvas
288 ?? 205 cm (113.4 ?? 80.7 in)
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Pedro Americo
Emperor s speech
1872(1872)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in)
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Pedro Americo
Peace and Concord
1902(1902)
Oil on canvas
300 x 431 cm (118.1 x 169.7 in)
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Pedro Americo
Fala do Trono
1872(1872)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in)
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Pedro Americo
Independency or death
Oil on Canvas painting by Pedro Amxrico (1888).
Date 1888(1888)
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Pedro Americo
The Emperors speech
1872(1872)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 288 x 205 cm (113.4 x 80.7 in)
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Pedro Americo
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
Lion
Date c. 1895(1895)
Medium Oil on cardboard
Dimensions 14 x 19 cm (5.5 x 7.5 in)
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Pedro Americo
Lion
Date c. 1895(1895)
Medium Oil on cardboard
Dimensions 14 x 19 cm (5.5 x 7.5 in)
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Pedro Americo
Night with the Genii of Study and Love
1886(1886)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 260 x 195 cm (102.4 x 76.8 in)
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Pedro Americo
Peace and Concord
1895(1895)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 42 x 60 cm (16.5 x 23.6 in)
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Pedro Americo
Quartered Tiradentes
1893(1893)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 270 x 165 cm (106.3 x 65 in)
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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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