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As a national distinction, the Portuguese Republic is represented wearing green and red clothes. [citation needed] The Efígie da República was adopted as a Portuguese State official symbol after the 5 October 1910 revolution, when the Republic substituted the Monarchy in Portugal. Before that, it was used as a political symbol by the ...
Allegory of the Republic, Gaucho Armenia: Mother Armenia. We Are Our Mountains Australia: Miss Australia, [6] Little Boy from Manly: Boxing kangaroo Austria: Austria. Tyrolia ; Double-headed eagle Bangladesh: Bangamata [7] Bengal tiger [8] Belgium: La Belgique, Manneken Pis [9] [10] Brabantic Lion, Leo Belgicus Bhutan: Thunder Dragon Brazil
Manuel Lopes Rodrigues (December 31, 1860 — October 22, 1917) was a Brazilian Realist painter. Born in the city of Salvador, in the State of Bahia, he was initially homeschooled by his father, João Francisco Lopes Rodrigues, later entering at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios, being taught by Miguel Navarro Cañizares.
Allegory of the Republic (1896), painting by Manuel Lopes Rodrigues in the Bahia Art Museum. From the 1870s, in the aftermath of the Paraguayan War (also called the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870), some sectors of the elite transitioned into opposition to the current political regime. Factors that influenced this movement included:
' Brazilian National Anthem ') [1] [6] National bird: Sabiá-laranjeira (Turdus rufiventris), the rufous-bellied thrush [7] National tree: Pau-brasil (Paubrasilia echinata), the brazilwood [8] National floral emblem: There is no official decree designating a National Flower of Brazil
Sometimes the meaning of an allegory can be lost, even if art historians suspect that the artwork is an allegory of some kind. [21] Allegory has an ability to freeze the temporality of a story, while infusing it with a spiritual context. Medieval thinking accepted allegory as having a reality underlying any rhetorical or fictional uses. The ...
This painting is an allegory of the power of the Republic of Venice. In Europe new republics appeared in the late Middle Ages when a number of small states embraced republican systems of government. These were generally small, but wealthy, trading states, like the Mediterranean maritime republics and the Hanseatic League , in which the merchant ...
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒoa'kĩ ʒo'zɛ da 'siwvɐ ʃavi'ɛɾ]; 12 November 1746 – 21 April 1792), known as Tiradentes (pronounced [tʃiɾɐˈdẽtʃis]), was a leading member of the colonial Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full independence from Portuguese rule and the creation of a republic.