Guilherme Simões Gomes Júnior

Graduated in Social Sciences from USP (1978), Master in Social Sciences from PUC-SP (1986), PhD in Social History from USP (1996), "Free professor" in Sociology of Culture from USP (2003). Post Doctorate at EHESS in Paris (2002). Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at PUC-SP. Researcher in Sociology of Culture and Social History of Art, focused on studying literate and artistic practices, generations, groups. In a continuous line since his doctorate on the Baroque, he has developed studies on Brazilian thought in the 19th and 20th centuries and on international relations that articulate figurations within the scope of culture, with special attention to painting. Since 2002, in addition to research on the relationships between the connections between Paris and Rio de Janeiro in the field of drawing arts, he has developed studies on French painting between the School of David and the currents in dispute in the artistic sphere in the last decades of the 19th century, with special attention to realism and "pompier" art. He is vice leader of Social Sciences Research Group (CNPq) titled Brazilian Thought - Art, Literature, History. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)