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Meeting of Our Lady and Saint Isabel

Candido Portinari1941

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in rose tones (predominant), blue, ochre, red, violet, earthy, black and white. Resulting rough texture own support and smooth. It depicts meeting of Our Lady and St. Elizabeth, against rose background. The two figures are standing face to face. To the left of the composition, Our Lady profile to the right. It has long face, light hair of medium length, wavy pulled back and released. The back of the head you see a halo, long forehead, brown eyes, long nose, and thin lips closed and slightly prominent chin. wear blue long dress with sailor collar and type of the breast in wine tone finish of white flowers and black sandals passing between the fingers. Is slightly bent with white and extended forward with open hands with palms up as if to greet Santa Isabel who is the front profile to the left, turned slightly forward. It has long face, long black hair in the tail at the nape, wide forehead, arched eyebrows, eyes closed, long nose, thin and closed lips and prominent chin. wear blue dress a little shorter than that of Our Lady, seeing the ankle; It has collar, cuffs and short red bar and black sandals passing between the fingers. It is also slightly bent and arms extended forward, hands open and palms up, toward Our Lady. Background and floor smooth deep rose tone.

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  • Title: Meeting of Our Lady and Saint Isabel
  • Creator Lifespan: 1903-12-29 - 1962-12-06
  • Creator Nationality: Brazilian
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Death Place: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Creator Birth Place: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Date: 1941
  • Location Created: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w160.5 x h180cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: religious:Our Lady, religious:Saints:Saint Elizabeth, human figure:group:women
  • Technique: tempera
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2759
  • Function: Work executed to decorate the center third of the left side wall of the “Nonna” chapel in Brodowski, SP. The house where the artist’s parents lived, along with the work, was expropriated by the São Paulo state government in 1969 and transformed into a museum in 1970.. The models for this work were Olga Portinari Leão, as Our Lady and Maria Portinari, as Saint Isabel, both sister and wife of the artist, respectively.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1340
Projeto Portinari

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