ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC</TITLE><link rel=STYLESHEET type=text/css href=css.css></HEAD><BODY aLink=#ff0000 bgColor=#FFFFFF leftMargin=0 link=#000000 text=#000000 topMargin=0 vLink=#000000 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><table align=center width=700 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td align=left bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=550><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=3><font size=1>XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC</font></font></strong><font face=Verdana size=1><b><br></b></font><font face=Verdana, Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><strong> </strong></font></font></td><td align=right bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=150><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><font  size=1>Resumo:267-1</font></em></font></strong></font></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2><br><br><table align=center width=700><tr><td><b>Oral (Tema Livre)</b><br><table width="100%"><tr><td width="60">267-1</td><td><b>Francisco Varnhagen, Pedro Américo e Photoshop CS5: Leituras (multi)midiáticas da história 
</b></td></tr><tr><td valign=top>Autores:</td><td><u>Genaro Oliveira </u>  (UOA - The University of Auckland) </td></tr></table><p align=justify><b><font size=2>Resumo</font></b><p align=justify class=tres><font size=2>This paper discusses the importance of the production of Brazilian national histories as written and visual narratives in the post-independence era, focusing on the close relationship and reciprocal influences between the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (AIBA) and the Brazilian Historical and
Geographical Institute (IHGB). It argues how, besides the investment in publishing books and newspapers, the production of visual historical discourses was also central to the construction of feelings of belonging throughout 19th-century Brazil. In the first part of my paper, I compare Brazilian 19th-century historical texts and images about Brazilian independence. Specifically, I compare the work <i>História da Independência do Brasil<i>, by historian Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, finished in 1877 but published in 1916, and the oil painting <i>Independência ou Morte<i>, 1888, by painter Pedro Américo. In the second part, I approach the theme of Brazilian independence through a multimedia method, using computer graphics and web design tools to re-interpret Américo s iconic painting.</font></p></td></tr></table></tr></td></table></body></html>