A “great priest of civilization”: Reinterpreting Victor Meirelles’ A Primeira Missa through newspapers

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dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.volume9
dc.contributor.authorOliveira G
dc.date.available5/09/2020
dc.date.issued5/09/2020
dc.description.abstractUsing newspapers as primary sources, this article presents an innovative analysis of Victor Meirelles’ A primeira missa no Brasil (1860). Beyond canonical interpretations of Meirelles’ work as an erudite depiction of the beginning of Brazil’s history in 1500, the article demonstrates that for viewers of that time the painting also, and above all,represented the beginning of the history of Brazilian art in the 1800s. It demonstrates this by following general art debates in newspapers of the period, specifically in the years before and after the highly anticipated return of the young Meirelles fromhis European sabbatical. Debates in the press illustrate how Meirelles’ significance for nineteenth-century audiences in particular, and for Brazilian art history as whole, can only be fully decoded by situating the artist within Brazilian elites’ political-intellectual efforts to achieve European-style civilisational progress during the first decades of the post-independence period.
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dc.edition.edition2020
dc.format.extent194 - 215
dc.identifierhttps://tidsskrift.dk/bras/article/view/120083
dc.identifier.citationBrasiliana : Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2020, 2020, 9 (1), pp. 194 - 215
dc.identifier.doi10.25160/bjbs.v9i1.120083
dc.identifier.elements-id434371
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn2245-4373
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10179/15617
dc.languageEnglish and Portuguese
dc.publisherKing's College London
dc.publisher.urihttps://tidsskrift.dk/bras/article/view/120083
dc.relation.isPartOfBrasiliana : Journal for Brazilian Studies
dc.titleA “great priest of civilization”: Reinterpreting Victor Meirelles’ A Primeira Missa through newspapers
dc.typeJournal article
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