[Preparatory drawing for "The teaching of the Indians" mural, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress] [graphic] /
Portinari, Cândido, 1903-1962, artist.
still image
Drawings Brazilian Color 1940-1950. gmgpc
Gouaches Brazilian Color 1940-1950. gmgpc
[1941]
eng
Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures--Imagination": Portinari Murals at the Library of Congress. Cândido Portinari, Brazil's foremost painter, completed four frescoes on the walls of the vestibule of the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress in 1941. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation as a goodwill gesture, these four murals, Discovery of the Land, Entry into the Forest, Teaching of the Indians, and Mining of Gold, represent the peoples of America and relates central themes in the past 500-year experience of inter-cultural contact in the Americas. The evolution of the composition can be traced by comparing this preparatory drawing for Teaching of the Indians with the full-scale mural on the second floor of the Jefferson Building.
Title devised by Library staff.
Cândido Portinari;
Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2002-2003.
Indians of Central America--Education--1490-1500.
Indians of Central America--Spiritual life--1490-1500.
Settlements--Central America--1490-1500.
Monks--Central America--1490-1500.
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