Figure 1
Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo. Independência ou Morte! [Independence or Death!], 1888MELO, Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e. Independência ou Morte!, 1888, óleo sobre tela, 415 x 760 cm. Acervo do Museu Paulista., oil painting, 415 x 760 cm. Collection of Museu Paulista. Reproduction: Helio Nobre; José Rosael.
Figure 2
Jose Ferraz de Almeida Junior. Partida da Monção [Expedition Departure], 1897ALMEIDA JUNIOR, José Ferraz de. Partida da Monção. 1897, óleo sobre tela, 390 x 640 cm. Acervo do Museu Paulista., oil painting, 390 x 640 cm. Collection of Museu Paulista. Reproduction: Helio Nobre; José Rosael.
Figure 3
Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo. Independência ou Morte! [Independence or Death!] (study), [n.d.], oil painting, 59 x 51 cm. Fadel Collection - RJ.
Figure 4
Barefoot and driving his donkey, the black man, with generic features, follows the path opposite to that in which the main scene takes place.
Figure 5
The white, red, and blue in the hillbilly’s clothes.
Figures 6a and 6b
Images (altered) of the Hall of Honor of the Museu Paulista: of similar dimensions, Caipira picando fumo [Brazilian hillbilly making cigars] and Amolação interrompida [Interrupted task] perfectly fit into the empty spaces left by Bezzi, and which will be later occupied by the portraits of Empress Leopoldina and Maria Quitéria in the 1920s. Reproduction: Helio Nobre; José Rosael.
Figure 7
José Ferraz de Almeida Jr. Caipira picando fumo [Brazilian hillbilly making cigars], 1894, oil painting, 200 x 141 cm. Collection of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. Transferred from the Museu Paulista, 1905. Reproduction: Isabella Matheus
Figure 8
José Ferraz de Almeida Jr. Amolação interrompida [Interrupted task], 1894, oil painting, 200 x 140 cm. Collection of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. Transferred from the Museu Paulista, 1905. Reproduction: Isabella Matheus.
Figure 9a
At the level of the staircase, the visitor would stumble upon Partida da Monção [Expedition Departure] before entering the museum and seeing the Independência ou morte! [Independence or death!] painting.
Figure 9b
Photograph referring to the top of the central staircase of Museu do Ipiranga, taken between 1901 and 1905. It is noteworthy the presence of Partida da Monção in detail, hanged in the anteroom of the Noble Hall.
Figure 10
Oscar Pereira da Silva. O Príncipe D. Pedro e Jorge de Avilez a bordo da Fragata União [Prince D. Pedro and Jorge de Avilez aboard the União Frigate], 1922, oil painting, 310 x 250 cm. Collection of Museu Paulista. Reproduction: Helio Nobre; José Rosael.
Figure 11
Domenico Failutti. Maria Quitéria de Jesus, 1920FAILUTTI, Domenico. Maria Quitéria de Jesus. 1920, óleo sobre tela, 155 x 253,5 cm. Acervo do Museu Paulista., oil painting, 155 x 253.5 cm. Collection of Museu Paulista. Reproduction: Helio Nobre; José Rosael.
Figure 12
Augustus Earle. Dona Maria de Jesus. In: GRAHAM, Maria. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil and residence there, during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row; J. Murray, Albermarle-street, 1824.
Figure 13
Domenico Failutti. D. Leopoldina e seus filhos [D. Leopoldina and her children], 1921FAILUTTI, Domenico. D. Leopoldina e seus filhos. 1921, óleo sobre tela, 155 x 253,5 cm. Acervo do Museu Paulista., oil painting, 155 x 253.5 cm. Collection of Museu Paulista. Reproduction: Helio Nobre; José Rosael.
Figure 14
Oscar Pereira da Silva. Sessão das Cortes de Lisboa - 9 de maio de 1822 [Session of the Lisbon Courts - May 9, 1822], 1922, oil painting, 310 x 250 cm. Collection of Museu Paulista. Reproduction: Helio Nobre; José Rosael.
Figure 15
Alfredo Roque Gameiro (1865-1937). As côrtes constituintes de 1820 [The 1820s courts]. In: Quadros da história de Portugal. Lisbon, 1917.
