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Publication Date
3-2-2009
Description
6. Primeira missa no Brasil (First Mass in Brazil), 1860. This painting by Vítor Meireles de Lima is a romanticized vision of the arrival of Christianity in Brazil and its introduction among the indigenous peoples of the country. Meireles was an accomplished academy-trained painter of large-scale romanticized historical subjects which were commissioned and well- received from mid-to late Nineteenth Century.
Publisher
Latin American and Iberian Institute / University of New Mexico
Rights
Brazil Slide Series Collection: This article is copyrighted by the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) of the University of New Mexico. Rights permission is for standard academic, non-commercial, use of these materials. Proper citation of this material should include title, author, publisher, date, and URL. Copyright Latin American and Iberian Institute University of New Mexico 1997
Keywords
Brazil: Modern Brazilian Painting
