Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo
Baron of Santo Ângelo | |
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editorial cartoon | |
Literary movement | Romanticism |
Spouse | Ana Paulina Delamare |
Children | Carlota Porto-Alegre Paulo Porto-Alegre |
Coat of Arms of the Baron of Santo Ângelo |
Manuel José de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo (29 November 1806 – 30 December 1879), was a Brazilian Romantic writer, painter, architect, diplomat and professor, considered to be one of the first Brazilian editorial cartoonists ever. He is the patron of the 32nd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Life
Porto-Alegre was born Manuel José de Araújo in Rio Pardo, Rio Grande do Sul, to Francisco José de Araújo and Francisca Antônia Viana. He would change his name to Manuel de Araújo Pitangueira during the independence of Brazil, citing nativist reasons. Later on, he finally changed it to Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre.
In 1826, he moved to
In 1840 he was named the official painter and decorator of emperor Pedro II's palace. He decorated the imperial palace in Petrópolis, the wedding of Pedro II with Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies and the emperor's coronation. He was decorated with the Order of Christ and the Order of the Rose.
Reuniting with Gonçalves de Magalhães and Torres Homem, he founded a periodic named Minerva Brasiliense, that lasted from 1843 to 1845. He would publish in this periodic his poem Brasiliana. In 1844, alongside Torres Homem, he founded the humoristic magazine Lanterna Mágica, where he published his caricatures.
In 1849, Porto-Alegre founded the magazine Guanabara, alongside Joaquim Manuel de Macedo and Gonçalves Dias. The magazine, considered the official journal of the Romantic movement in Brazil, lasted until 1856.
In 1852, he entered the political career, assuming a position as a substitute councilman in the Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro, lending service in the areas of urbanism and public health. He exercised this post until 1854, the year when he became the headmaster of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, lasting until 1857.
In 1860, Porto-Alegre entered the diplomatic career, where he served as the consul of the Empire of Brazil in the Kingdom of Prussia, in the Kingdom of Saxony and later in Portugal, where he died. (Porto-Alegre's remains were brought to Brazil in 1922.)
He was granted the title of Baron of Santo Ângelo by emperor Pedro II in 1874, and was a member of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute.
Spiritism
While in
Literary works
Poetry
- Ode Sáfica (1830 — dedicated to Jean-Baptiste Debret)
- Canto Inaugural (1855)
- Brasiliana (1863)
- Colombo (epic poem — 1866)
Theater plays
- Prólogo Dramático (1837)
- Angélica e Firmino (1845)
- A Destruição das Florestas (1845)
- A Estátua Amazônica (1851)
- A Restauração de Pernambuco (1852)
- A Noite de São João (1857)
- Cenas de Penafiel (1858)
- Os Judas (1859)
- O Prestígio da Lei (1859)
- Os Lobisomens (1862)
- Os Voluntários da Pátria (1877)
Fiction
- Excertos das Memórias e Viagens do Coronel Bonifácio do Amarante (under pen name Tibúrcio do Amarante) (1848)
Translations
- Electra by Euripides
- Lucrèce Borgia by Victor Hugo
- Christine of Sweden by Alexandre Dumas
Famous paintings
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Portrait of Pedro I of Brazil, oil painting
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Brazilian Jungle, watercolor painting
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Study for a Decorative Panel, oil and nankeen
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Pietà
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Study for Pedro II's Sagration, oil painting
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Self-portrait, oil painting; circa 1823
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This caricature that satirizes the Regency period of the Empire of Brazil (1831–1840) was made by Porto-Alegre, and is considered to be the first Brazilianeditorial cartoonever
References
- ^ Além da Vida magazine, 30th edition. Brazilian National Archives, Rio de Janeiro.