Portrait of Domingos Sodré (2020) by Ayrson HeráclitoPinacoteca de São Paulo
Portrait of Domingos Sodré, 2020
aquarela watercolour on cotton paper
Domingos Sodré was born in the West African kingdom of Onim, modern-day Lagos, Nigeria. Together with his parents, he was sold at a very young age to a buyer in Bahia.
Portrait of Luiza Mahin (2020) by Ayrson HeráclitoPinacoteca de São Paulo
Portrait of Luiza Mahin, 2020
watercolour on cotton paper
In 2019, Law No. 13816 was enacted determining that the name of Luiza Mahin be included in the Book of the Heroes and Heroines of Brazil.
Portrait of José Martins (Mandingueiros) (2020) by Ayrson HeráclitoPinacoteca de São Paulo
Portrait of José Martins (Mandingueiros), 2020
watercolour on cotton paper
José Martins, Mateus Pereira Machado, Luiz Pereira Almeida and João da Silva were free and freed men persecuted due to religious intolerance. They lived in a gold mining region in Jacobina, in hinterland Bahia.
Portrait of Mateus Pereira Machado (Mandingueiros) (2020) by Ayrson HeráclitoPinacoteca de São Paulo
Portrait of Mateus Pereira Machado (Mandingueiros), 2020
watercolour on cotton paper
Portrait of Luiz Pereira de Almeida (Mandingueiros) (2020) by Ayrson HeráclitoPinacoteca de São Paulo
Portrait of Luiz Pereira de Almeida (Mandingueiros), 2020
watercolour on cotton paper
Portrait of João da Silva (Mandingueiros) (2020) by Ayrson HeráclitoPinacoteca de São Paulo
Portrait of João da Silva (Mandingueiros), 2020
watercolour on cotton paper
Michel Cena 7
São Paulo, SP, 1985
Justina Maria do Espírito Santo (2020) by Michel Cena7Pinacoteca de São Paulo
Justina Maria do Espírito Santo, 2020
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Justina Maria was an African woman enslaved to Father João Carlos Monteiro, a speaker of great fame in the Imperial Chapel, councilor, deputy of his city and main figure of the clergy in Campos de Goytacazes.
Liberata (2020) by Michel Cena7Pinacoteca de São Paulo
Liberata, 2020
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Liberata, an enslaved woman, struggled to obtain freedom for her and her children, as well as to escape her master’s sexual harassment.
Inácio Monte (2020) by Tiago Sant'AnaPinacoteca de São Paulo
Tiago Sant’Ana (Santo Antônio de Jesus, BA, 1990)
Inácio Monte, 2020
acrylic on canvas
The African Inácio Monte was baptized in 1742 after disembarking in Rio de Janeiro and became an important leader of the Black colonial fraternities.
Mathias Henrrique da Silva e Faustino da Silva (2020) by Panmela CastroPinacoteca de São Paulo
Panmela Castro (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 1981)
Mathias Henrique da Silva and Faustino da Silva, 2020
oil on canvas
Mathias Henrique da Silva and Faustino da Silva Paiva were literate enslaved men who founded and organized a reading club in Bragança Paulista in 1881.
A Look at the Life of Father Joaquim de Souza Ribeiro (2020) by Micaela CyrinoPinacoteca de São Paulo
Micaela Cyrino (São Paulo, SP, 1988)
A Look at the Life of Father Joaquim de Souza Ribeiro, 2020
acrylic on canvas
Probably the son of a black or mixed-race woman, Joaquim de Souza Ribeiro received an ecclesiastical education in Brazil and also earned a law degree from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 1788. In the early 1790s, he was appointed Vicar General in Maranhão.
Chico Rei (2020) by Antonio ObáPinacoteca de São Paulo
Antonio Oba (Ceilândia, DF, 1983)
Chico Rei, 2020
oil and gold foil on canvas
A member of the Kingdom of Congo’s royal family, the African Francisco was enslaved and shipped with his wives and children to Brazil. He ended up in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Portrait of Salustia (Salustia) (2020) by Moisés PatrícioPinacoteca de São Paulo
Moises Patricio (São Paulo, SP, 1984)
Portrait of Salustia (Salustia), 2020
acrylic on canvas
The enslaved Salustia lived in the hinterland of Paraíba when she filed a lawsuit against her master, owner of the Curral Grande sugar cane mill, in 1885.
Rosa Fronteiras (2020) by MulamböPinacoteca de São Paulo
Mulambö (Saquarema, RJ, 1995)
Rosa Fronteiras, 2020
acrylic on cardboard
Rosa crossed the borders towards her freedom with her sons Eugênio, Francisco, Flaubio and Domingos and “one still suckling in the breast.”
Dona Afra (Afra Joaquina Vieira Muniz) (2020) by Mônica VenturaPinacoteca de São Paulo
Monica Ventura (São Paulo, SP, 1985)
Dona Afra (Afra Joaquina Vieira Muniz), 2020
crylic on canvas
Afra Joaquina was an African woman married to her former master, the freedman Sabino Francisco Muniz, also of African origin, who paid for his wife’s freedom at the same time in which he became the owner of other enslaved people.
When the Secret Is Revealed, The Mistery Is Not Guarded (2020) by Castiel Vitorino BrasileiroPinacoteca de São Paulo
Castiel Vitorino (Vitória, ES, 1996)
When the Secret Is Revealed, The Mistery Is Not Guarded (Francisca Luiz), 2020
digital photograph, digital print on semi-pearl paper
Bruno Baptistelli
São Paulo, SP, 1985
Esperança Garcia (2020) by Bruno BaptistelliPinacoteca de São Paulo
Esperança Garcia, 2020
acrylic and gouache on paper
Esperança Garcia was one of the first enslaved women to claim her rights in a court of law. She may have helped to draft the oldest document allegedly written by an enslaved woman, expressing wants, desires and expectations.
Juliana (2020) by Bruno BaptistelliPinacoteca de São Paulo
Juliana, 2020
acrylic and gouache on paper
In 1855, Juliana bought her manumission for one conto de réis, the currency of the time. Some of her children had been born before and baptized as enslaved, while others would be born already free.
Germana (2020) by Bruno BaptistelliPinacoteca de São Paulo
Germana, 2020
acrylic and gouache on paper
A Exposição Enciclopédia Negra esteve em cartaz entre 1/05/21 a 8/11/21 e foi realizada pela Pinacoteca de São Paulo em parceria com a Cia das Letras e Inst. Ibirapitanga e apresentada pelo Ministério do Turismo por meio da Secretaria da Cultura e Economia Criativa do Governo do Estado de São Paulo. Teve como patrocinadores Vivo, BNY Mellon, Mattos Filho, Allergan e Havaianas.
