[PDF.40lx] Brazil through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics

In 1858 François-Auguste Biard, a well-known sixty-year-old French artist, arrived in Brazil to explore and depict its jungles and the people who lived there. What did he see and how did he see it? In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard’s Brazil with special attention to what she calls his “tropical romanticism”: a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic.

Biard was not only one of the first European artists t...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Brazil through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics   |  Ana Lucia Araujo. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.