Between Tagus and Jerônimos: the historical exhibition from Brazil in the celebrations of Portugal in 1940

Author(s)

Carla Rafaela Monteiro

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2011-08-26

Examining board members

Cecilia Helena Lorenzini de Salles Oliveira; Vera Lúcia Nagib Bittencourt; Paulo César Garcez Marins

• Advisor: Cecilia Helena Lorenzini de Salles Oliveira

Abstract

The focus of this essay is the Historical Exposition of Brazil organized inside the Exhibition of the Portuguese World, in Lisbon, in 1940, when Oliveira Salazar decided to celebrate the centenary of Portugal foundation (1139) and of the Restoration (1640). The Brazilian Exposition was guided and carried out by the lead of Gustavo Barroso, who was sent to Portugal as one of the Brazilian representatives in the Exhibition of the Portuguese World and as the Curator of the National Historical Museum. In proposing the Historical Exposition of Brazil as a theme, the intention was to understand it as an expression of a specific way of reconstituting the past of Brazil, trying to insert it in the political and cultural context of the time, contributing to the understanding of how it configured, at the time, a writing of the History of Brazil, simultaneously, incrusted in the National Historical Museum and in the area where the events took place in Portugal. (AU)