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Lia Menna Barreto
Lia Mascarenhas Menna Barreto (born March 3, 1959, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian studio artist currently based in Rio Grande do Sul. Biography Barreto was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro on March 3, 1959. She spent her childhood in São Paulo, where she lived until she was 13 years old. In the 1970s she moved to Rio Grande do Sul where she completed her formal education, graduating from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 1985. During the 1990s she lived in the United States, working on a studio at Stanford University. Barreto currently lives in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul with her husband, the Brazilian artist Mauro Fuke and their daughter. Education Between 1975 and 1978 Barreto took art and drawing courses at the Ateliê Livre da Prefeitura de Porto Alegre. In 1984, she studied painting and drawing with Luiz Paulo Baravelli (1942) and Rubens Gerchman (1942 – 2008) respectively. She received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a beta global city, Rio de Janeiro is the sixth-most populous city in the Americas. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
