Benedito Calixto de Jesus (14 October 1853 – 31 May 1927) was a Brazilian
painter
Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...
. His works usually depicted figures from Brazil and Brazilian culture, including a famous portrait of the ''
bandeirante''
Domingos Jorge Velho
Domingos Jorge Velho (c. 1641–1705) was a Portuguese bandeirante. He was born in Santana de Parnaíba, captaincy of São Paulo, to Francisco Jorge Velho and Francisca Gonçalves de Camargo. He was responsible for the repression of severa ...
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 (c. 1641–1705) was a Portuguese bandeirante. He was born in Santana de Parnaíba, captaincy of São Paulo, to Francisco Jorge Velho and Francisca Gonçalves de Camargo. He was responsible for the repression of severa ...
''
File:Benedito Calixto - Naufrágio do Sírio, 1907.jpg, ''The sinking of the SS Sirio''
Image:Proclamação da República by Benedito Calixto 1893.jpg, '' Proclamation of the Brazilian Republic
See also
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Belém Museum of Art
References
1853 births
1927 deaths
People from Itanhaém
19th-century Brazilian painters
19th-century Brazilian male artists
20th-century Brazilian painters
20th-century Brazilian male artists
Brazilian cartographers
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