Eliseu Visconti
Eliseu Visconti, born Eliseo D'Angelo (30 July 1866 – 15 October 1944), was an Italian-born Brazilian painter, cartoonist, and teacher. He is considered one of the very few Impressionist painters of Brazil. He is considered the initiator of the Art Nouveau in Brazil.
Also recorded as Elyseo Visconti · Eliseu d' Angelo Visconti · Eliseu d'Angelo Visconti · Eliseo d'Angelo Visconti
Eliseu Visconti

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- Name
- Eliseo Visconti
- Birth Name
- Eliseo D'Angelo
- Born
- 30 July 1866
- Birthplace
- Giffoni Valle Piana, Italy
- Died
- 15 October 1944
- Place of death
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Field
- Painting
- Movement
- Impressionism, Art Nouveau
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy and Brazil.
- Occupation
- painter, graphic designer and draftsperson.
- Fields
- landscape.
- Movements
- Impressionism.
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Eliseu Visconti, born Eliseo D'Angelo (30 July 1866 – 15 October 1944), was an Italian-born Brazilian painter, cartoonist, and teacher. He is considered one of the very few Impressionist painters of Brazil. He is considered the initiator of the Art Nouveau in Brazil.
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Biography
Biography
Visconti worked between 1866 and 1944 across painter, graphic designer and draftsperson. The registers place that work in landscape painting. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Eliseu Visconti studied at Académie Julian. The recorded working language is Portuguese. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Work by Eliseu Visconti is recorded in the collections of Museu Victor Meirelles, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, São Paulo Museum of Art, Ricardo Brennand Institute and Museu de História e Artes do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Eliseo Visconti • Birth Name — Eliseo D'Angelo • Born — 30 July 1866 • Birthplace — Giffoni Valle Piana, Italy • Died — 15 October 1944 • Place of death — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Field — Painting • Movement — Impressionism, Art Nouveau • Website — http: www.eliseuvisconti.com.br
Training
Training
In 1884 he entered the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro, where he studied under Victor Meirelles. Parallel to his studies in the Liceu, he entered Brazil's Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, studying under professors Henrique Bernardelli, Rodolfo Amoedo and Jose Maria de Medeiros. In 1888 he received a gold medal at the Academy. Like many of his contemporaries, including some of his teachers, he was involved in the effort to renew the Academy's teaching methods, deemed obsolete and was among the creators of the short-lived "Ateliê Livre", together with professors João Zeferino da Costa, Rodolfo Amoedo, Henrique Bernardelli and Rodolfo Bernardelli.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Thanks to a prize received in 1892, Visconti travelled to Paris, where he attended the École des Beaux Arts the following year. He also took classes at the Académie Julian and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, where he was a pupil of Art Nouveau master Eugène Grasset. He was accepted at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français. As one of the Brazilian representatives to the Exposition Universelle 1900 he exhibited the paintings Gioventú and Oréadas, for which he received a silver medal. Back in Brazil, Visconti exhibited in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and obtained the first place in a contest for the drawing of postal stamps for the Brazilian Casa da Moeda. He traveled again to Europe, where he exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1905 the portrait of the artist Nicolina Vaz de Assis now at the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. In this same year, he was invited to paint the stage curtain for the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro which he completed in his studio in Paris.
Works
Works
Decorative schemes executed for the National Library or Biblioteca Nacional in (Rio de Janeiro) date from this period as does another gold medal he received at the International Exhibition of Saint-Louis (Louisiana Purchase Exposition), in 1904, for the painting Recompensa de São Sebastião (see external links). The museum of Santiago of the Chile acquired his Sonho Místico (Mystical Dream) in 1912. In 1913, Visconti returned to Europe in order to paint large scale panels for the "foyer" of the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro. His plans to return were interrupted by the First World War so he stayed in France until 1920. The resulting paintings for the "foyer" were sent to Brazil during the war, in 1915. In 1922 his triptych "Lar" gained him the Medal of Honor in a large exhibition created in Rio de Janeiro to commemorate the first centennial of Brazilian Independence, the Exposição do Centenário. The following year Visconti painted the mural decoration of Rio de Janeiro's municipal council hall. In 1924, he painted the panel depicting the signature of the first Republican Constitution, for the old federal court, also in Rio de Janeiro. • Illustration — Woman's Back, 1895 • Illustration — Lot and his Daughters, circa 1913 • Illustration — The two sisters, or, In summer, 1894 • Illustration — Man with a Red Cap, 1894 • Illustration — Gioventù, 1898 • Illustration — Circle of Children, circa 1918 • Illustration — The Kiss, 1910
Life and work
Life and work
Eliseu Visconti was born on 30 July 1866 in Giffoni Valle Piana. Visconti held the nationality of Kingdom of Italy and Brazil. Visconti was educated at Académie Julian. Visconti worked as painter, graphic designer and draftsperson. The fields Visconti worked in include landscape painting. Visconti worked in Portuguese. Visconti is placed by the collections within Impressionism.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
Explore 1866–1944
The full dated record · 3 entries
1866
Eliseu Visconti born at Giffoni Valle Piana.
1944
Dies at Rio de Janeiro.
1944
Eliseu Visconti died on 15 October 1944.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Giffoni Valle Piana.
Birth place
Rio de Janeiro.
Death place
Catalogued output
Works documented in more than one form
7 titles are catalogued under more than one form, which is to say the registers hold them both as a work and as a distinct object, score, recording or edition. Where a title is documented in several forms the evidence behind it is correspondingly wider, and the article treats those forms as separate records of the same work rather than as separate works.
Paisagem - Estudo para marchetaria
1900 — catalogued as watercolor painting and drawing
Menino
1912 — catalogued as watercolor painting and drawing
Brasão da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro - Estudo
1931 — catalogued as drawing and watercolor painting
Autorretrato 1901
1901 — catalogued as painting and watercolor painting
A Música - Estudo para Vitral
1898 — catalogued as drawing and watercolor painting
Paisagem de Saint Hubert
1918 — catalogued as painting and watercolor painting
Louise
1905 — catalogued as watercolor painting and drawing
Paintings, drawings and prints, 1887–1899
Catalogued output
Paintings, drawings and prints, 1887–1899
These are objects catalogued as visual works, each held or recorded by the institution named against it. 104 works carry dates between 1887 and 1899. The 1890s are the densest part of the run, with 96 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. They belong to a run of 326 titles in all, from 1887 to 1943. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it.
The run opens with Morro de São Bento and closes with Três fases da vida - Tríptico
Morro de São Bento
1887
Paisagem de São José d’Além Paraíba
1888
Casebre no fim da Praia do Flamengo
1888
Arredores de São Cristóvão
1888
Rua de Monte Alegre - Riachuelo
1889
Menina no portão
1889
Menino na ladeira
1889
Jardim em Santa Teresa
1889
Amendoeira
1890
Lavadeira
1890
Paisagem com figura
1890
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The run opens with Morro de São Bento and closes with Três fases da vida - Tríptico
Morro de São Bento
1887
Paisagem de São José d’Além Paraíba
1888
Casebre no fim da Praia do Flamengo
1888
Arredores de São Cristóvão
1888
Rua de Monte Alegre - Riachuelo
1889
Menina no portão
1889
Menino na ladeira
1889
Jardim em Santa Teresa
1889
Amendoeira
1890
Lavadeira
1890
Paisagem com figura
1890
Cabeça feminina - verso da obra D335
1890
Recanto com mamoneiras
1890
Pedro I - Cópia de Pedro Américo
1890
Paisagem brasileira
1890
Interior mineiro
1890
Autorretrato c.1890
1890
Monge
1890
O aprendiz de sapateiro
1890
O homem do cachimbo
1890
Dia de sol - Andaraí Grande
1891
Rosto de mulher
1891
Paisagem com casa
1892
A leitura
1893
Roseira
1893
Nu masculino de pé
1893
Charenton - Arredores de Paris
1894
Busto feminino
1894
Risonha
1894
Interior do atelier de Aline Lamy
1894
Retrato feminino
1894
Nus masculinos
1895
Comungantes - Estudo
1895
Dorso de mulher
1895
Nu de costas
1895
Nu frontal
1895
Nu e rosto
1895
Figura de homem
1895
Nu feminino ajoelhado
1895
Morte de Cleópatra
1895
Nu sentado - verso da obra D318
1895
Nu masculino em movimento
1895
Nu masculino - verso da obra D472
1895
Nu feminino - verso da obra D478
1895
Nu masculino de punhos cerrados
1895
Nu masculino de punhos cerrados - verso da obra D469
1895
Infante Carlos - Cópia de Velásquez
1895
Retrato de moça
1895
Retrato do Maestro Alberto Nepomuceno
1895
Primavera
1895
Nu sentado
1895
Pensativa
1895
Capa do primeiro número da Revue du Brésil editada em Paris - Novembro de 1896 - Matriz original de localização desconhecida
1896
Mariana D’Áustria - Cópia de Velásquez
1896
Modelo
1896
Nu feminino sentado - verso da obra D338
1896
Moça recostada - Estudo para “A convalescente”
1896
Retrato de ancião
1896
Autorretrato 1896
1896
A further 43 recorded entries stand behind this article and are held on the record.
Paintings, drawings and prints, 1900–1909
Catalogued output
Paintings, drawings and prints, 1900–1909
86 works carry dates between 1900 and 1909.
Carta-bilhete para o exterior - A Comunhão Republicana - Estudo preliminar para carta-bilhete integrante da coleção vencedora do Concurso dos Correios de 1904
1903
The run opens with Flores - Estudo and closes with Moringa decorada com perfil e flores - Executada para a inauguração do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
Flores - Estudo
1900
Folhas de carvalho - Estudo para friso
1900
Telhados de Paris - Paisagem com chaminé
1900
Nu feminino e cabeça
1900
Nu e rosto feminino
1900
Nu masculino com mão na cabeça
1900
Vaso de cristal ou vidro - Estudo para vaso
1900
Nu de pé
1900
Cabeça de mulher
1900
Nu feminino sentado - verso da obra D392
1900
Perfil feminino - verso da obra D567
1900
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The run opens with Flores - Estudo and closes with Moringa decorada com perfil e flores - Executada para a inauguração do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
Flores - Estudo
1900
Folhas de carvalho - Estudo para friso
1900
Telhados de Paris - Paisagem com chaminé
1900
Nu feminino e cabeça
1900
Nu e rosto feminino
1900
Nu masculino com mão na cabeça
1900
Vaso de cristal ou vidro - Estudo para vaso
1900
Nu de pé
1900
Cabeça de mulher
1900
Nu feminino sentado - verso da obra D392
1900
Perfil feminino - verso da obra D567
1900
Nu feminino de costas - verso da obra D458
1900
Modelo feminino
1900
Perfil feminino
1900
La Forêt - Estudo para capa de livro
1900
Dorso feminino
1900
Busto de homem
1900
Nu masculino de frente - verso da obra D496
1900
Nu masculino de perfil
1900
Frontão
1900
Vaso com flores - Estudo para vaso em porcelana
1900
Castiçal e luminária - verso da obra D813
1900
Luminária e castiçal - Estudo
1900
Motivo ornamental - Estudo para friso
1900
Vegetal - Estudo para tecido
1900
Cavalos - Estudo para tapeçaria ou papel de parede
1900
Composição geométrica - Estudo para piso
1900
Motivo ornamental - Estudo para sanca
1900
Vaso em grès - Estudo para vaso
1900
Vaso listrado - Estudo para vaso
1900
Nus femininos
1900
Nu masculino
1900
Galhos entrelaçados - Estudo
1901
Paisagem com riacho - Estudo para Marchetaria
1901
Cabeça de homem
1901
O Beijo da Glória a Santos Dumont - Estudo
1901
Paisagem rochosa estilizada - Email cloisonné - Estudo para Marchetaria
1901
Plantas e flores estilizadas - Estudo para tecido
1901
Pão de Açúcar
1901
Mulher num parque, Petrópolis
1902
Arte brasileira - Estudo para logomarca
1902
Quatro estações - Estudo para capa de livro
1902
Vista do mar
1902
Retrato de figura masculina
1902
Três figuras femininas - Prova para a capa do Annuário Fluminense 1902
1902
Presidente Manoel Victorino em seu leito de morte
1902
Estudo de selo para os Correios - Projeto não utilizado
1903
Café do jardim
1903
Carta-bilhete para o exterior - A Comunhão Republicana - Estudo preliminar para carta-bilhete integrante da coleção vencedora do Concurso dos Correios de 1904
1903
Selo para os Correios - Esboço de projeto não utilizado
1903
Antigo Observatório Nacional
1903
Emblema da Biblioteca Nacional
1903
Autorretrato 1904
1904
Chácara no Andaraí
1904
Ancião
1904
A Influência das Artes Sobre a Civilização - Primeiro estudo para o pano de boca do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
1905
Autorretrato c.1905
1905
Figuras em campo florido
1905
No Jardim de Luxemburgo
1905
A further 22 recorded entries stand behind this article and are held on the record.
Paintings, drawings and prints, 1910–1919
Catalogued output
Paintings, drawings and prints, 1910–1919
60 works carry dates between 1910 and 1919.
The run opens with Autorretrato c.1910 and closes with Saint Hubert
Autorretrato c.1910
1910
Cabeças
1910
Primeiro retrato de Tobias
1910
Figura feminina com chapéu
1910
Paisagem de Santa Teresa
1910
Mãos - Estudo para retrato
1910
Mão - Estudo para o retrato de Gonzaga Duque
1910
Telhados de Copacabana - Estudo para “A crisálida”
1910
Moça na porta
1910
Deveres
1910
Instrução (Solidariedade Humana) - Estudo para o painel da Biblioteca Nacional
1910
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The run opens with Autorretrato c.1910 and closes with Saint Hubert
Autorretrato c.1910
1910
Cabeças
1910
Primeiro retrato de Tobias
1910
Figura feminina com chapéu
1910
Paisagem de Santa Teresa
1910
Mãos - Estudo para retrato
1910
Mão - Estudo para o retrato de Gonzaga Duque
1910
Telhados de Copacabana - Estudo para “A crisálida”
1910
Moça na porta
1910
Deveres
1910
Instrução (Solidariedade Humana) - Estudo para o painel da Biblioteca Nacional
1910
Minha esposa - Louise
1911
Ladeira do Barroso (Atual Ladeira dos Tabajaras)
1911
Bolhas de Sabão
1911
Retrato de perfil
1912
Retrato de Francisco Pereira Passos
1912
Cabeça de mártir
1912
Autorretrato com chapéu c.1913
1913
Ipoméia
1913
Figura feminina - Estudo para o painel do foyer do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
1913
A Música, o Drama e a Arte Lírica - Estudo para o foyer do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
1913
Paisagem tropical
1913
Nus femininos de pé
1914
Nu feminino de pé
1914
O Drama - Inspiração Poética - Estudo para o painel lateral do foyer do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
1914
A Arte Lírica - Inspiração Musical - Estudo para o painel lateral do foyer do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
1914
Peixes - Estudo para prato em cerâmica
1914
Nu feminino sentado
1914
Nu feminino recostado
1914
Nu feminino
1914
Primavera em Saint Hubert
1915
Atmosfera parisiense
1915
Autorretrato c.1915
1915
Paisagem vista do Atelier
1915
A leiteira
1915
A casa dos Palombe
1915
A casa da vovó
1915
Yvonne
1915
Jardim florido
1916
Muro de quintal
1916
Crianças brincando
1917
Paisagem européia
1917
A casa de Louise
1917
No jardim de Saint Hubert
1917
Tobias e Afonso no parque
1917
Tobias aos seis anos
1917
Paisagem em Saint Hubert
1917
Busto de mulher
1918
Autorretrato c.1918
1918
Nu - Duas figuras
1918
Tobias no bosque
1918
Alma do passado
1918
Jardim da família
1918
Tobias no jardim de Saint Hubert
1918
Cabeça feminina
1918
Torso feminino
1919
Nu feminino de pé - verso da obra D491
1919
Saint Hubert
1919
Paintings, drawings and prints, 1920–1938
Catalogued output
Paintings, drawings and prints, 1920–1938
63 works carry dates between 1920 and 1938. The 1920s are the densest part of the run, with 37 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself.
The run opens with Carinhos and closes with No jardim
Carinhos
1920
Nu feminino sentado - verso da obra D390
1920
Mulher sentada
1920
Nus
1920
Rosto de Yvonne
1920
Tobias menino
1920
Cartaz da Companhia Antarctica - Projeto para o pano de boca do Cassino Antarctica
1920
Selo para o centenário da Independência - Esboço
1921
Selo comemorativo do 1º Centenário da Independência - 100 Réis - Estudo para selo
1921
Autorretrato c.1921
1921
Minha casa em Copacabana
1921
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The run opens with Carinhos and closes with No jardim
Carinhos
1920
Nu feminino sentado - verso da obra D390
1920
Mulher sentada
1920
Nus
1920
Rosto de Yvonne
1920
Tobias menino
1920
Cartaz da Companhia Antarctica - Projeto para o pano de boca do Cassino Antarctica
1920
Selo para o centenário da Independência - Esboço
1921
Selo comemorativo do 1º Centenário da Independência - 100 Réis - Estudo para selo
1921
Autorretrato c.1921
1921
Minha casa em Copacabana
1921
Meu filho Afonso aos sete anos
1922
Estendendo roupa
1922
O jardim
1922
Fundo de quintal
1922
Perfil de homem
1922
O colar
1922
Deveres da Cidade - Estudo para o painel central do tríptico
1922
Afetos
1923
Autorretrato c.1924
1924
Autorretrato c.1925
1925
Arcos da Lapa
1925
Galinhas
1925
O galinheiro
1925
Copacabana
1925
Morro de Santo Antônio
1925
Baiana
1926
Retrato de Tobias
1927
Retrato de Julinho
1927
Autorretrato 1928
1928
Garotos da Ladeira
1928
Autorretrato 1929
1929
Céu de Teresópolis
1929
Retrato de Yvonne
1929
Minha casa de campo
1929
Serra dos Órgãos
1929
Mãe e filho
1930
Autorretrato c.1930
1930
Retrato de uma jovem
1930
Meu jardim em Copacabana
1930
Cabeça de moça
1930
Meu sobrinho
1930
Meu filho Tobias
1930
Meditação
1930
Paisagem
1930
Louise pintando
1930
Minha casa em Teresópolis
1932
O Brasil liderando a América
1933
Retratos de família
1934
Minha Casa de Teresópolis
1934
Autorretrato 1934
1934
Paisagem com morro
1935
Folhagens de Teresópolis
1935
Solar das Magnólias
1935
Baile à Beira do Rio
1935
Autorretrato c.1935
1935
Paisagem de Teresópolis
1935
Domingo no Solar de Teresópolis
1936
Jardim de Teresópolis
1938
A further 1 recorded entry stand behind this article and are held on the record.
Paintings, drawings and prints, 1940–1943
Catalogued output
Paintings, drawings and prints, 1940–1943
13 works carry dates between 1940 and 1943.
The run opens with Horizonte em Teresópolis and closes with Nonó
Horizonte em Teresópolis
1940
Flores do Meu Jardim
1940
Folhagens
1940
Retrato de Louise
1940
Meu jardim
1940
Meu genro e meu neto
1940
Roupas na Corda
1941
Autorretrato 1942
1942
Florada
1942
Paisagem com arbustos
1943
Canto do meu jardim
1943
Teaching activities
In June 1906, he was selected to replace Henrique Bernardelli as a professor of painting at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, the same Imperial Academia renamed after the proclamation of the republic. He accepted the position the following year after returning to Brazil, where he remained a teacher until 1913. Among his disciples were painters Marques Junior and Henrique Cavalleiro.
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reference work
- “Eliseu Visconti”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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institutional register
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2340277: Eliseu Visconti
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- 1.Primeiros tempos 1866-1892. Eliseu Visconti Website.
- 2.Maturidade. Eliseu Visconti Website.
- 3.De Cadeira (De Grau). Academia Brasileira de Belas Artes.
- 4.Visconti, Eliseu (1866 - 1944), painter, decorative artist. Oxford Index. Grove Art Online.
- 5.(it)Treccani Encyclopedia, Irma Arestizabal, D'ANGELO, Eliseo
- 6.Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- 7.eliseuvisconti.com.br.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Elyseo Visconti, Eliseu d' Angelo Visconti, Eliseu d'Angelo Visconti, Eliseo d'Angelo Visconti and Elysée Visconti. His recorded language was Portuguese.
Identity and origins
Recognition and collections
Work by Eliseu Visconti is
Museu Victor Meirelles, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, São Paulo Museum of Art and Ricardo Brennand Institute
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