Pedro Américo

1843–1905 · Brazil

Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo (29 April 1843 – 7 October 1905) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, scientist, art theorist, essayist, philosopher, politician and professor, best remembered as one of the most important academic painters in Brazil. Wikipedia

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Works

“Independence or Death”, 1888 — Paulista Museum Fund Collection
“The Battle of Avaí”, 1874 — Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
“Tiradentes Quartered”, 1893 — Mariano Procópio Museum
“The Liberation of Slaves”, 1889 — The Artistic-Cultural Collection of the Governmental Palaces of the State of São Paulo
“Battle of Campo Grande”, 1871 — Imperial Museum of Brazil
“Passagem do Chaco”, 1871 — Museu Histórico Nacional collection
“The Vote of Heloíse”, 1880 — Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
“Árab violin player”, 1884 — Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
“Moses and Jochebed”, 1884 — Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
“A Carioca”, 1882 — Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
“Joana d’Arc”, 1883 — Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
“Hamlet’s Vision”, 1893 — Pinacoteca de São Paulo
“The night accompanied by the geniuses of study and love”, 1883 — Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
“Portrait of the poet Luís Nicolau Fagundes Varela”, 1888 — Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
“Faust and Gretchen”, 1875–1900 — Pinacoteca de São Paulo
“Lion” — Pinacoteca de São Paulo
“Judith and Holofernes”, 1880 — Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
“Self-portrait”, 1895 — Uffizi Gallery
“Retrato de Maria Custódia Guimarães de Almeida”, 1870 — Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
“Retrato de Silvino de Almeida Brito” — Museu Nacional de Belas Artes