{{short description, Brazilian painters
Grupo Santa Helena, or Santa Helena Group, was the name given by the critic
Sérgio Milliet to the painters that met in the
ateliers
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of
Francisco Rebolo
Francisco Rebolo Gonsales, widely known as Francisco Rebolo, or just Rebolo (August 22, 1902 in São Paulo – July 10, 1980 in São Paulo), was a Brazilian painter. He was a son of Spanish immigrants that arrived at Brasil in the end of 19th c ...
and
Mario Zanini
Mario Zanini, or simply Zanini (September 10, 1907 in São Paulo – August 16, 1971 in São Paulo), was a Brazilian painter and interior designer.
He was born in a humble family. As a teenager he studied in the '' Escola de Belas de São Paul ...
starting in the 1930s. The ateliers belonged to a
Praça da Sé building named ''Palacete Santa Helena''. This building was demolished in 1971, when the
Sé station of
São Paulo Metro was built.
The Santa Helena Group was formed spontaneously, without any conceptual commitment. Most of its members were
Italian immigrants
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There were two major Italian diasporas in Italian history. The first diaspora began around 1880, two decades after the Risorgimento, Unification of Italy, and ended in the ...
, like
Alfredo Volpi
Alfredo Volpi (April 14, 1896 – May 28, 1988), was a prominent painter of the artistic and cultural Brazilian modernist movement. He was born in Lucca, Italy but, less than two years later, he was brought by his parents to São Paulo, Brazil ...
and
Fulvio Pennacchi
Fulvio Pennacchi (December 27, 1905 in Villa Collemandina – October 5, 1992 in São Paulo) was an Italian-Brazilian artist who specialized in painted murals and made ceramics.
He was part of the Santa Helena Group, together with Alfredo V ...
; sons of Italian immigrants, like
Aldo Bonadei
Aldo Cláudio Felipe Bonadei, also known as Aldo Bonadei (June 17,
1906 in São Paulo – January 16, 1974 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian painter of Italian descent.
Early life
Between 1923 and 1928, Aldo studied with Brazilian academic painter ...
,
Alfredo Rizzotti
Alfredo Rullo Rizzotti, generally known as Alfredo Rizzotti ( Serrana (São Paulo state) August 15, 1909 — São Paulo May 12, 1972) was a Brazilian artist, that worked with painting, drawing and interior design.