A corte portuguesa e o escravismo no Brasil sob o olhar de Debret

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Zanin, Larissa Fabricio
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; BR; Mestrado em História; UFES; Programa de Pós-Graduação em História
• Palavras-chave em Português: Escravidão - Brasil - Séc. XIX; Imagem – Fonte de pesquisa; História; Semiótica; Image- source of research; History; Semiotics; Debret, Jean Baptiste, 1768-1848; Brasil x Usos e costumes - Séc. XIX; 93/99
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3383

The image is a source of research that brings in its structures valuable elements to the understanding of the historical period that presents. Understanding the nature immersed in the historical nature engravings produced by French artist Jean Baptiste Debret, in the period that remained in Brazil, which have the Portuguese court and black people on the streets of Rio de Janeiro in the first half of the nineteenth century is the main objective of this study that uses images as primary source of analysis of the period searched. The period marked by major political and socio-cultural transformations produced by the transfer of the Portuguese court for Brazil enabling the French artist a context rich of representations to the society of Rio. Invited to compose the Mission French Artist, Debret arrives in Brazil under the title of painter of historical with the task of preparing a visual history of the court in Brazil and is in the streets of the city of Rio that he finds a favorable environment for the representation of the society which forms itself from the transfer of the royal family. Identifying the view of the artist as narrator of events, through the reading of images, intended to ensure the production of Debret recognition as the subject of communication and significance in itself that contains elements historiográficos of Brazil in the first decades of the nineteenth century.