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Dante's Tomb
Candido Portinari1956-06
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in blue and white. Contour lines and dashed. Dante's tomb occupying the center of the stand area. The tomb is a one-storey construction with facade finished off by a triangular pediment and circular vault. The center rectangular door with semicircular area on top. The tomb seems to have on the left a garden of leafy trees, surrounded grid.
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Details
- Title: Dante's Tomb
- 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: 1956-06
- Physical Dimensions: w10 x h15.5cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Nature:landscape:group of houses
- Technique: fountain pen
- Signature: Signed and dated in bottom half "Portinari Ravena, junho 1956"
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 670
- Inscription: Inscription in bottom half "Tumulo de Dante”. On reverse, authentication and inscription by Maria Portinari "DN 429”.
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3890
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