O modelo e o pensionista: a influência do Prêmio de Viagem na prática do modelo-vivo na arte acadêmica brasileira do século XIX

Abstract

The following work elaborates an analysis of the impact of the Travel Award on the teaching of art in Brazil on the XIX century, utilizing for that a focus on the life modeling classes through the Dom João VI museum collection of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (MDJVI/EBA/UFRJ) and the catalogue raisonné of the Eliseu Visconti Project. Such collections were utilized as a way to make possible a specific case study of the experiences of a Brazilian artist during on Travel Award, in this case Eliseu Visconti. However, understanding that the influence of the Travel Award is not limited to a single experience and historical moment, we have obtained small studies of Victor Meirelles, Rodolfo Amoedo e João Zeferino da Costa, all students from the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (AIBA) and subsequent teachers of the same institution or of the National School of Fine Arts (ENBA) who have won the Travel Award. Making use of the analysis of sketches and finished works, as well as documents and correspondence from the time and other researches from colleagues in the field of Art History, we investigate the timeline created by the development of academic art in Brazil, it’s teaching and the multiple changes of paradigm, concepts and ideologies which have helped form the beginning of a Brazilian artistic identity