Benedito Calixto de Jesus (14 October 1853 – 31 May 1927) was a Brazilian
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...
. His works usually depicted figures from Brazil and Brazilian culture, including a famous portrait of the ''
bandeirante
The ''Bandeirantes'' (), literally "flag-carriers", were slavers, explorers, adventurers, and fortune hunters in early Colonial Brazil. They are largely responsible for Brazil's great expansion westward, far beyond the Tordesillas Line of 149 ...
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Domingos Jorge Velho
Domingos Jorge Velho (1641–1705) was one of the fiercest and most effective bandeirantes. He was born in Santana de Parnaíba, captaincy of São Paulo, to Francisco Jorge Velho and Francisca Gonçalves de Camargo. He was responsible for ...
in 1923, and scenes from the coastline of São Paulo. Unlike many artists of the time, Calixto's patron was an individual other than the state, who were "the most dependable source of patronage."
Gallery
File:Benedito Calixto de Jesus - Moagem de Cana - Fazenda Cachoeira - Campinas, 1830, Acervo do Museu Paulista da USP.jpg, ''Sugarcane crushing in Cacheira Farm in Campinas''
File:Benedito Calixto - Anchieta e Nóbrega na cabana de Pindobuçu.jpg, ''Anchieta e Nóbrega na cabana de Pindobuçu''
Image:Domingos Jorge Velho.jpg, ''Domingos Jorge Velho
Domingos Jorge Velho (1641–1705) was one of the fiercest and most effective bandeirantes. He was born in Santana de Parnaíba, captaincy of São Paulo, to Francisco Jorge Velho and Francisca Gonçalves de Camargo. He was responsible for ...
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File:Benedito Calixto - Naufrágio do Sírio, 1907.jpg, ''The sinking of the SS Sirio
SS ''Sirio'' was an Italian merchant steamer that had a shipwreck off the eastern Spanish coast on August 4, 1906, causing the deaths of at least 150 Italian and Spanish emigrants bound for Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. The shipwreck gained no ...
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Image:Proclamação da República by Benedito Calixto 1893.jpg, '' Proclamation of the Brazilian Republic
See also
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Belém Museum of Art
The Belém Museum of Art (MABE) is a public municipal museum located in the city of Belém, capital of the state of Pará, Brazil. Founded in 1991, it is subordinated to the Cultural Foundation of the Municipality of Belém (FUMBEL). Its headquart ...
References
1853 births
1927 deaths
People from São Paulo (state)
19th-century Brazilian painters
19th-century Brazilian male artists
20th-century Brazilian painters
20th-century Brazilian male artists
Brazilian cartographers
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