ABSTRACT
Jaime Cortesão, Portuguese intellectual, lived in Brazil between 1940 and 1957 after being banished from his country by the Salazar regime. During this period, he was a frequent presence in the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo press, as well as working at the National Library and the Rio Branco Institute, where he had privileged contact with the documentation that enabled him to write a history of the “Brazilian territorial formation”. Invited to participate in the celebrations of the 4th centenary of the founding of the city of São Paulo, Cortesão idealized the exhibition mounted in one of the pavilions of the recently inaugurated Ibirapuera Park. Bringing together works of art and objects lent by individuals and institutions from different countries, as well as murals, maps, sculptures made for the occasion by invited artists, the exhibition had a great influence on the museology of São Paulo and on the later trajectory of Cortesão. In this article, we will discuss this exhibition through an analysis of the manuscript catalog of the Exposição da história de São Paulo no quadro da história do Brasil, stored in the Jaime Cortesão’s archive at the National Library of Portugal.
KEYWORDS:
São Paulo (city); Museology; Intellectual history; Historiography
