Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Introdução
2019; Universidade de São Paulo, Museu Paulista; Volume: 27; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1590/1982-02672019v27e28introd2
ISSN1982-0267
Autores Tópico(s)Visual Culture and Art Theory
ResumoThe dossier "History Painting in the collection of the Museu Paulista", part of the actions of the thematic project Coletar, identificar, processar, difundir: o ciclo curatorial e a produção do conhecimento 2 , is a contemporary effort to expand studies concerning the artistic production focused on the representations of the past, considering its inescapable relevance to the formulation of social imaginary.Still largely neglected due to the disdain arising from the theoretical and critical postulates established by the avant-garde currents of the twentieth century, the history painting of the second part of the 1800s and the first decades of the twentieth century was made opaque in the great historiographical narratives about European art.Thus, the understanding of the developments of the neoclassical and romantic aspects of the first half of the nineteenth century lost its colors, which is why the works by David, Gérard, Gros, Gericault, and Delacroix, in the case of French history painting, remain notable.However, the history painting produced from the second half of the 1800s slowly became the subject of encouraging studies, as well as curatorial policies in
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