Gallery of the Masters 
Pedro Américo
1843-1905 Brazil/Academic
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Brief Biography-Pedro Américo was born in Areia in the Northeast of Brazil and moved to Rio de Janner at eleven. He entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1856, and in 1859 he did a course in the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he was a disciple of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Horace Vernet. After a brief trip to Brazil, he returned to Brussels and gained the title of Doctor of Physical Sciences and Natures. In 1869, he married in Portugal and had three children before settling in Florence, Italy, where he spent the remainder of his life making occasional trips to Brazil. |
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girl playing
the lute
the battle
of avai
jocabed leading
moses to the nile
king david
and abisag
hamlet's
vision
the lion
with prey
tiradentes
quartered
the
carioca
anatomical study
of osteology
candido
almeida reis
councillor
philip lee
joan
of arc
dead
horse
independence
or death
infant john four
of portugal
judith and
holofernes
liberation
of slaves
lion
marriage of
princess isabel
peace
and concord
self
portrait
self portrait of
pedro americo
socrates rescuing
alcibiades
the battle of
campo grande
the emperor pedro
two of brazil
the night escorted
by the geniuses
to arabic
rabequista
