Projeto Portinari

Family background; arrival in Rio in 1940; Escola Nacional de Belas Artes/ENBA; trip to Italy; first exposure to Portinari's paintings; comparison between Portinari's murals and Michelangelo's frescoes; meeting Portinari and his family; drawing course taught by Portinari; prize trip to Europe in 1954; Portinari encourages Ceschiatti to be a sculptor; Ceschiatti and Portinari stay at the same hotel in Paris; Maria's illness in Paris; artist persuades Picasso not to welcome Portinari into his house; the panels "War" and "Peace"; Athos Bulcão translates the "Diary of Delacroix" for Portinari; arrival in postwar Paris; new trips to Italy; Portinari is awarded the "Légion d'Honneur"; Portinari's humour; intellectuals who regularly visited Portinari; the  rivalry between artists from São Paulo and Rio; linking Portinari's art and architecture; Portinari's eventful life; arguments between Portinari and Lasar Segall; the lack of artistic sensitivity in Israel Pinheiro; Oscar Niemeyer; Portinari and Lelio Landucci's friendship; persecution of teachers during the ’64 Revolution ; Portinari's need for affection; Portinari meets foreign artists; Neo-Realism in postwar Italy; Portinari influences Gotuzzo; the importance of Portinari in Italy in the fifties; Portinari's solitude at the end of his life; Maria's dedication to Portinari.