In-person lecture
Date: January 25th (Saturday)
Time: from 2 PM to 6 PM
Workload: 4h
Job openings: 200
Location: Auditorium of the Ipiranga Museum
Free registration: Until 17/01 in this link.
The lecture “Representing the Origins: The Foundations of São Paulo and São Vicente in Brazilian Painting (1900-1954)”, given by Prof. Dr. Michelli Cristine Scapol Monteiro and M.Sc. Eduardo Polidori, analyzes two paintings present in the exhibition “Imagined Pasts”: Foundation of São Vicente (1900), by Benedito Calixto, and Foundation of São Paulo (1907), by Oscar Pereira da Silva, highlighting the development of historical curatorship in a university museum specializing in material culture.
The class also presents the reflections proposed in the "Alliance or Conflict" room, where the paintings are displayed. There, the representations of the encounter between indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Catholics, as conveyed in historical paintings from Brazil from the second half of the 19th century onwards, are problematized. Similarly, the exhibition's narrative will be contextualized through theoretical discussions that connect visual studies of Brazil's and São Paulo's past to the history of art.
This lecture is the first in the "Encounters with Research" series, which will take place throughout 2025 and aims to disseminate work developed by researchers affiliated with the Museu Paulista of USP, as well as investigations by external researchers whose studies are based on the institution's various collections.
