Brazil through French eyes: a nineteenth-century artist in the tropics
Abstract:With Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth Century Artist in the Tropics Ana Lúcia Araújo (Howard University, Washington, dc, us) makes a major contribution to a field that remains largely underexplored: the accounts produced by foreign travelers in Brazil throughout the imperial period (1822-1889). Araújo's book focuses on the expedition taken by the French painter François-Auguste Biard (1799-1882) to Brazil in 1858-1859, providing the reader with a meticulous and well informed analysis of the resulting t… Show more
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