- CountryBrazil
- Town:Rio de Janeiro
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Year of creation:1899
- Rider(s):Lima e Silva, Luis Alves de
(1803–1880), Duke de Caxias, fought as a young officer in the Brazilian War for Independence against Portugal. Caxias instructed Pedro II in swordsmanship and horsemanship, and eventually became his friend. During the infancy of Pedro II, the governing regency faced countless rebellions throughout the country. Caxias commanded loyalist forces suppressing these uprisings. The Brazilian army prevailed under his command against the Argentine Confederation in the Platine War (1851). A decade later, Caxias led Brazilian forces to victory in the Paraguayan War. As a reward he was raised to duke. The Emperor appointed him Prime Minister in 1856. He briefly held that office again in 1861, but fell when his party lost its parliamentary majority. In 1875 he headed a cabinet for the last time.
- Sculptor(s):Bernardelli, Rodolfo
(1894 –1955), was an Italian-Brazilian sculptor. He lived most of his life in São Paulo, except for his studies in Paris in his early twenties. Brecheret’s work combines techniques of European modernist sculpture with references to his native country through the physical characteristics of his human forms and visual motifs drawn from Brazilian folk art.
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