O Príncipe D. Pedro e Jorge de Avilez a bordo da Fragata União, de Oscar Pereira da Silva:

Carlos Lima Junior

Carlos Lima Junior Doutorando em Estética e História da Arte pelo MAC USP. Bolsista Fapesp. Coautor, ao lado de Lilia Mo-ritz Schwarcz e Lúcia Klück Stumpf, do livro A Batalha do Avaí – a beleza da barbárie: a Guerra do Para-guai pintada por Pedro Américo (Sextante, 2013).

Keywords: Historical Painting, Fragata União, Oscar Pereira da Silva, Afonso d’Escragnolle Taunay, Paulista Museum

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the intentions that presided over the production of the painting Prince D. Pedro and Jorge de Avilez on board the Fragata União, by Oscar Pereira da Silva and destined for the Paulista Museum that was in the process of remodeling for the centenary celebrations of the Independence in 1922. It’s seeks to attentive to the visual and textual sources that guided the composition, its affinity with the decorative program undertaken by Afonso d’Escragnolle Taunay – commissioner of the painting and director of the Museum at the time. It also seeks to demonstrate the loans, adaptations, solutions and choices of visual models that guided Pereira da Silva at the moment of giving visuality, “materiality” to such a historical scene portrayed by his brushes, supervised by the commander Afonso Taunay.

O Prince D. Pedro and Jorge de Avilez on board the Fragata União, by Oscar Pereira da Silva

the Independence in belone tones

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