Prosas barbaras;

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Prosas barbaras;

At head of title: Eça de Queiroz.

El centenario del escultor portugués Soares dos Reis.

Al nacer Soares dos Reis, en 1847, la escultura portuguesa atravasaba una acentuada crisis de decadencia.. Machado de Castro, el gran escultor y maestro había muerto en 1822. y se puede decir que no había dejado discípulos. Sería Soares el continuador de su obra. Estudió en la Academia Portuense de Bellas Artes. Ante tan genial talento, apenas acabó el curso fue enviado a París pensionado y obtuvo una mención honorífica, medallas y un premio pecuniario. La guerra francoprusiana de 1870 le obligó a abandonar París y marchar a Italia y en Roma, modeló la célebre estatua de El Desterrado, la primera obra prima de la escultura del siglo XX..Obra de un gran artista en la que la pena, la ausencia, la nostalgia, el desaliento, alcanzan proporciones de superlativo dolor. Pero es en la estatua del Conde Ferreira, en donde su genio se revela plenamente. Es una obra maestra de penetrante observación. Ingresó en la Academia de Oporto fue un verdadero reformador de la enseñanza de la escultura, cuya acción didáctica influyó en el medio artístico portugués, todavía muy limitado en aquella época. Pero muy joven, con cuarenta y ocho años, en plena gloria y cuando tanto había que espera de su talento, Soares dos Reis encontró la muerte en el suicidio, en su propio taller, víctima de su carácter melancólico y de su enfermizo y amargo pesimismo.

Eça de Queirós e a Gazeta de Notícias (suplemento literário -1892)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A proximidade discursiva nas cartas dos romances A correspondência de Fradique Mendes, de Eça de Queiroz e Nação crioula: A correspondência secreta de Fradique Mendes, de José Eduardo Agualusa

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Nação crioula: estudo sobre a releitura da personagem Fradique Mendes

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Max and Martha Liebermann with unidentified group at a celebration for Max Liebermann at the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin Portraits; Groups

Verso: "Liebermann Feierlichkeiten in der Akademie der Kuenste. In der Mitte: Max Liebermann und Frau. Becker."

Max and Martha Liebermann seated next to the lake; Wannsee Portraits Couples

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Max and Martha Liebermann seated next to the lake; Wannsee Portraits Couples

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The Cabbage Field.

The painting represents a figure bending over to attend the plants in a cabbage field, probably the artist's summer house in Wannsee outside Berlin, where he did most of his work after 1922.

Portrait of Benjamin Liebermann

This large ambitious painting is one of Liebermann's earliest. His uncle, the Geheime Kommerzienrat (Privy Councillor) Benjamin Liebermann (1847-1935), is elderly and slim, but erect and proudly wearing his honorary business medals, has his left hand on his hip, while his right hand rests on the back of a red velvet chair. He is wearing long sideburns and whiskers. The background is plain. The style is tight and painstaking, but already exhibits Liebermann's preference for visible, impasto brushstrokes. The emphasis is on the face, with no attempt at idealization of the akward, but strong features. The colors are mainly black and brown.

Portrait of Max Boehm ( 1871-1944 ).

The model is seated, facing the viewer and looking straight at him. He is wearing a business suit and holding a cigar. The pose is relaxed abd the color tonalities warm, with the yellow background dominant. Heavy impasto is used for face and hands. Neg. 37599 Signed upper right, also dated

Portrait of Heinrich Stahl (1868-1942 ).

H.Stahl was the last president of the Jewish Community in Berlin. He is seated in a chair with wooden arm supports. He seems a small man, an impression emphasized by a large expanse of plain, tan background. The facial expression is tense, with deeply furrowed brows.

To the Mothers of the Twelve Thousand.

The size of the work and the printed title suggests, that this is a poster. It bears the emblem R.J.F., for the sponsoring organization, Reichsbund Juedischer Frontsoldaten or National Organization of the Jewish Front-line Soldiers. The mothers of "The twelve thousand" refers to the Jewish soldiers killed during World War I, when reminding Germans of the patriotism and sacrifices of German Jews, seemed important in view of the discrimination they were confronted with at the time, in 1935.

Portuguese living standards, 1720-1980, in European comparison: heights, income, and human capital

When and why did the Portuguese become the shortest Europeans? In order to find the answer to this question, we trace the trend in Portuguese living standards from the 1720s until recent times. We find that during the early nineteenth century average height in Portugal did not differ significantly from average height in most other European countries, but that when, around 1850, European anthropometric values began to climb sharply, Portugal's did not. In a panel analysis of 12 countries, we find that delay in human-capital formation was the chief factor hindering any improvement in the biological standard of living in Portugal.