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4 unusual facts about Escola Nacional de Belas Artes


Artur Barrio

In 1967, Artur Barrio attended the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (School of Fine Arts), one of the centers of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Escola Nacional de Belas Artes

Lúcio Costa, (1902-1998) Brazilian architect and urban planner

Félix Taunay, Baron of Taunay

They arrived in Brazil in 1816, where Nicolas-Antoine became a history painting teacher at Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (at the time called Academia Imperial de Belas Artes).

Rodolfo Amoedo

He was a professor and later director of the Brazilian Academy, renamed School of Fine Arts ou Escola Nacional de Belas Artes at the fall of the Brazilian Empire.


Candido Portinari

Born to Giovan Battista Portinari and Domenica Torquato, Italian immigrants from Veneto, in a coffee plantation near Brodowski, in São Paulo, Portinari studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA) in Rio de Janeiro.


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