27 July, 2015 – Scenes of the sea, naval battles, and canvases of impressive detail. Those in Rio de Janeiro have until September 20 to visit the exhibition “Demartino in Brazil.” On display at the MNBA (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes – Av. Rio Branco, 199 – Centro), the exhibit was organized by the Museum itself with Ibram / Minc and Diretoria do Heritage and Documentação Historico da Marinha in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture do Rio de Janeiro. The display highlights the works of Italian painter Demartino (Meta 1838 – London 1912), a sailor who then devoted himself to painting marine subjects. He was court painter of Emperor Don Pedro of Brazil (battle scenes of the war with Paraguay, 1868-69) and then, in England, for Queen Victoria (Battle of Trafalgar, English Battleship), for whom he painted mainly warships and battle scenes. The exhibition in Rio is the first of its kind entirely dedicated to Demartino in Brazil, a country that holds in various museums numerous works by the Italian painter. The exhibition at the Brazilian Museum of Fine Arts brings together 45 of these works. (red)
Exhibitions: discovering Edward Demartino, the sailor painter
