Pedro America de Figueiredo and Melo ( port. Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo ; April 29, 1843 , Ares , Empire of Brazil - October 7, 1905 , Florence , Italy ) - Brazilian artist , writer and poet .
| Pedro America di Figuiredo i Melo | |||
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| port. Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo | |||
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| Date of Birth | April 29, 1843 | ||
| Place of Birth | Areia , Paraiba , Brazil | ||
| Date of death | October 7, 1905 (62 years) | ||
| Place of death | Florence , Italy | ||
| Citizenship |  Brazil | ||
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| Style | academicism | ||
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Biography
Pedro America was born April 29, 1843 in the city of Ares , the state of Paraiba , in a simple poor family. In 1854, the American family moved to Rio de Janeiro , where Pedro entered the Pedro II College . Later, America studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, and in 1859 went to France . There he studied at the Paris School of Fine Arts, was a student of Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres and Hippolyt Flandrin. He studied with Victor Meyrellis and José Almeida Junior .
Returning to Brazil in 1864 , America created a whole series of masterpieces, including his most famous painting Independence or Death ( Independência ou Morte ), which depicts the declaration of independence of Brazil . Now this canvas is stored in the Paulista Museum in Sao Paulo .
With the establishment of the Republic of America, he was elected to the Constitutional Assembly of Brazil (1889).
Pedro America died in Florence in 1905 . His body was taken to Rio de Janeiro and buried in the cemetery of San Juan Batista.
Gallery
The throne speech of Pedro II ( Fala do Trono , 1873)
Independence or death ( Independência ou Morte , 1888)
Quartered Tiradentes ( Tiradentes esquartejado , 1893)