An audiovisual sample of Portinari's work
This site is under construction, in the process of being translated in toto to English. However, due to an increasing and urgent demand from our visitors for material in English, we are preliminarily giving access to some material that has already been translated:

Main Index
Guided Tour to Portinari's Library of Congress Murals
A Chrono-Biography
Quick Biographical Notes
A Thumbnail overall view of Portinari's work
Portinari's Sacred Art
Palaninho's Letter
The New York Times, an article on the newly-founded Portinari Project
The Portinari Project: Science and Art Team Up together to Help Cultural Project
Portinari on board visits Pantanal's riverine populations

"...A view of modern Brazilian culture through the life of Portinari is available and increasingly more accessible due to the pioneering efforts of the Portinari Project, or "Projeto Portinari", located at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Since 1979, Portinari's son, João Candido Portinari, and his team of researchers, historians and technical experts have located and documented approximately 4,500 works by Portinari and about 25,000 documents that are relevant to this artist's influential generation. A catalogue raisonné of Portinari is forthcoming, and will be the first of its kind in Latin America..."

Daly, Karen D. Candido Portinari: Brazilian artist as cultural Ambassador:
a re-examination of the Library of Congress murals. Richmond, VA, 1995. 145p. (thesis)

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