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D. Pedro I
Mestre Dezinho de Valença1973
Museu de Folclore Edison Carneiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pedro I (1798-1834) was the first Emperor of Brazil, from 1822 until his abdication in 1831.
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Details
- Title: D. Pedro I
- Creator: Mestre Dezinho de Valença
- Date Created: 1973
- Location: Teresina, PI
- Physical Dimensions: 78.7 x 27.5 in
- Medium: Wood (imburana)
- Photo Credit: Francisco Moreira da Costa
- About Creator: José Alves de Oliveira (Valença, PI, 1916 - Teresina, PI, 2000) was a cabinetmaker in the interior of Piauí, but in order to offer better opportunities to his children, Dezinho moved to the capital, where he got a job as a watchman, becoming an employee of the city hall. The situation changed radically, however, when he received an order for large wooden images to replace the ceramic saints in the renovation of a church whose priest had already noticed the quality of his work in the ex-votos that, without charge, he had always made and continued to make for promise payers.
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