ABSTRACT
This articule aims discuss the history of the Tiradentes Palace’s creation in the contexto of the publics building constructions that marked the brazilian republican government authority at the Rio de Janeiro city during the firts decade of the twenthy decades. It try to understand the symbolics relations meant for the comitee responsible for the choice the iconographic program adopted to de Tiradentes Palace’s decoration. It also presentes a case study about one of decorative paintings that composse the Tiradentes Palace’s iconographic program: the work Signing of the Constitution of 1891 (1926) by Eliseu Visconti. The objective is to undertand the symbolic intentions inherents to the choise oh the Constitutions if the 1891 subject within a guidelines republican iconographic program. After all, to reflect about hou Eliseu Visconti took care and reinvented the theme of the Constitution inside some tradition artistic.
KEYWORDS:
Tiradentes Palace; Constitution of 1891; Eliseu Visconti; Brazilian art in the first Republic
