Manuel de Araújo Porto Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo
José Manuel de Araújo Porto- alegre ( born November 2, 1806 Rio Pardo in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, † December 29, 1879 in Lisbon, Portugal), since 1874 Baron of Santo Ângelo, was a Brazilian poet, painter, Professor of History Painting, architect and diplomat.
Life
Porto- alegre attended the Academy of Fine Arts since 1826 to Rio de Janeiro, where he trained as a painter and architect Debret line under Professor Jean -Baptiste, went to Paris in 1831 to further studies, lingered in 1834-35 in Italy and returned to the message from the outbreak of the Brasilian Revolution in 1837 back to Rio de Janeiro.
Here he soon received a professorship at the Academy of Art, and later at a military school and became interested in the art and science of diverse journalistic activities. At all facilities that have been donated since 1837 in Brazil for artistic and scientific purposes, Porto- alegre has taken promotional content.
So he decorated in 1840 the Imperial Palace in Petrópolis, he drew up the plans for the church of Santa Ana and the bank in Rio de Janeiro; which at that time was regarded as the most beautiful buildings in the city, and did not pay less attention to the theater, which he sought to give a national character. He himself wrote a number of pieces (eg O espiao de Bonaparte, O sapateiro politicão etc. ), the applause found, but in some cases remained unpublished.
In this as in his other seals he showed himself as a representative of the national flow that characterized the Brazilian poetry in these decades.
Porto- alegre lived 1859-65 as Brazilian consul general in Prussia, which he returned to Brazil.
Works
Many of his poems have been published in magazines. As his main works are the epic
- Colombo ( History of the Discovery of America )
- Brasilianas (Cycle of excellent through descriptions of nature poems), which in single issues:
- A destruição the Florestas (Rio de Janeiro 1845) and
- O Corcovado (Rio de Janeiro 1847)