Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo
| Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre | |
|---|---|
Porto-Alegre in an 1869 painting
by Pedro Américo |
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| Born | Manuel José de Araújo Porto-Alegre November 29, 1806 Rio Pardo, Brazil |
| Died | December 30, 1879 (aged 73) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Pen name | Tibúrcio do Amarante |
| Occupation | Writer, painter, caricaturist, professor, diplomat, architect |
| Nationality |
 Brazilian |
| Alma mater | Escola Nacional de Belas Artes |
| Period | 19th century |
| Genre | Poetry, theatre, painting, drawing, editorial cartoon |
| Literary movement | Romanticism |
| Spouse | Ana Paulina Delamare |
| Children | Carlota Porto-Alegre, Paulo Porto-Alegre |
Manuel José de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo (November 29, 1806 – December 30, 1879), was a Brazilian Romantic writer, painter, architect, diplomat and professor, considered to be one of the first Brazilian editorial cartoonists ever. He is the patron of the 32nd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Porto-Alegre was born Manuel José de Araújo in Rio Pardo, Rio Grande do Sul, to Francisco José de Araújo and Francisca Antônia Viana. He would change his name to Manuel de Araújo Pitangueira during the independence of Brazil, due to nativist causes. Later on, he finally changed it to its definitive form: Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre.
In 1826, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, in order to study painting with Jean-Baptiste Debret at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (at the time called the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes). He also studied at what is now the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras and took a Medicine course and Philosophy. In 1831, he left Brazil along with Debret to Europe, in order to improve his painting techniques. In 1835, he went to Italy, where he met Gonçalves de Magalhães, another Brazilian poet. He and Magalhães would create in France, in the year of 1837, a short-lived magazine named Niterói, alongside Francisco de Sales Torres Homem. Also in 1837, he becomes history painting teacher at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, in a post that would last until 1848, when he would become a drawing teacher at the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras, and starts doing his first caricatures. In 1838, he married Ana Paulina Delamare, having with her two children: Carlota Porto-Alegre (the future wife of painter Pedro Américo) and future diplomat Paulo Porto-Alegre.
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