Navigator (Jun 2018)
Homem ao mar: Edoardo De Martino e o oceano de ideias do Século XIX
Abstract
In Brazil, during the 1800s, the hiring of the French Artistic Mission and the foundation of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts made the period very profitable for the development of artistic activity. This century was also marked by the constant presence of foreign painters, of which we highlight Edoardo de Martino. His work acquire great importance for the national history when studied together with the actions that the Brazilian Navy – one of the main buyers of the painter’s works – took to create and to consolidate a naval culture of its own. Guided by the historical problematization of the meanings of the oceans, this article aims to explain the complex context of the development of “modernity-coloniality” in which the painter and his painter work were inserted. (PINTO and MIGNOLO, 2015).
