Antônio Diogo da Silva Parreiras (20 January 1860,

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– 17 October 1937, Niterói) was a Brazilian painter, designer and illustrator.

Biography

He was one of nine children and his father was a goldsmith. In 1882, he enrolled at the

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@ the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural but left two years later to attend the free painting classes being offered by the German immigrant artist Georg Grimm. @ Pitoresco. In 1885, when Grimm left to work in the countryside, Parreiras became an

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@ InfoEscola. A year later, one of his works was purchased by Emperor Pedro II. This allowed him to resume his formal studies and travel to Europe in 1888, entering the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia where his teacher was Filippo Carcano. Upon his return to Brazil two years later, he participated in the "". Later that same year, he became a Professor of landscape painting at the

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(ENBA) and, following the example set by Grimm, introduced his students to

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painting. Following disagreements with ENBA over changes in the curriculum, he set up his own school called the " Escola do Ar Livre". He was soon doing much of his work in the forests outside

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. He also received numerous commissions to paint historical scenes and, after 1899, did decorations for the government in public buildings, such as the "Allegory of Apollo and the Goddesses of the Hours", which he created for the Palácio da Liberdade in

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. His female nudes are also considered to be especially well done. From 1906 to 1919, he maintained a second studio in Paris and exhibited at the

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. He was also named a delegate of the

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in 1911. In 1925 he was chosen as Brazil's best artist by the readers of ', a magazine created by art critic Gonzaga Duque. The following year, he published his autobiography and was inducted into the "". In 1933, he participated in his last exhibitions; the "Jubileu Artístico" in

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and Niteroi. Four years after his death, his former studio became the .

Other selected paintings

File:Antônio Parreiras - Fantasia, 1909.jpg, Fantasia (1909) File:Fim de romance by Antônio Diogo da Silva Parreiras 1915.jpg, The End of Romance (1915) File:Parreiras-conquista.jpg, Conquest of the Amazon (1907) Antônio Parreiras - Agonia.jpg, Agony (1915) File:Antônio Parreiras - Zumbi.jpg,

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(1927)

References

External links

Museu Antônio Parreiras
homepage. 1860 births 1937 deaths Brazilian landscape painters 19th-century Brazilian painters 19th-century Brazilian male artists 20th-century Brazilian painters 20th-century Brazilian male artists {{Brazil-painter-stub

Biography

Other selected paintings

See also

References

Further reading

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