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Today we're at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Brazil’s first modern art museum, founded in 1947 by Brazilian businessman Assis Chateaubriand. Take a close look at the paintings below, we'll be searching for them soon.
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First, St. Sebastian at the Column by Pietro Perugino. Point and click to explore the museum and find the painting.
St. Sebastian at the Column (1500 - 1510) by Pietro Perugino e ateliêMASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
St. Sebastian at the Column, 1500-10
Pietro Perugino, born Pietro Vannucci in 1446, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance.
Perugino was one of the earliest Italian practitioners of oil painting. Later in life he taught a number of young painters. Raphael was his most famous student.
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Antonie Vestier's Portrait of a Lady with a Book by a Fountain is somewhere near here
Portrait of a Lady with a Book by a Fountain (1785) by Antonie VestierMASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Portrait of a Lady with a Book by a Fountain, 1785
Antoine Vestier was a French miniaturist and painter of portraits, born at Avallon in Burgundy, who trained in the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Pierre.
He showed his work at the Salon de la Correspondance, Paris, before being admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1785.
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Now we're looking for Paul Cézanne's Paul Alexis Reading a Manuscript to Zola
Paul Alexis Reading a Manuscript to Zola (1869 - 1870) by Paul CézanneMASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Paul Alexis Reading a Manuscript to Zola, 1869-70
Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
The writers Paul Alexis and Émile Zola were close friends of Cézanne, who depicts them here in a moment of artistic contemplation.
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Last but not least, Anita Malfatti's The Student
The Student (1915 - 1916) by Anita MalfattiMASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
The Student, 1915-16
Anita Malfatti, born in 1889, is heralded as the first Brazilian artist to introduce European and American forms of Modernism to Brazil.
Her first solo exhibition in Sao Paulo, from 1917–1918, was controversial at the time, and her expressionist style and subject were considered revolutionary.
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