Julião, Carlos (1740–1811)

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Julião, Carlos (1740–1811)

Carlos Julião (b. 1740; d. 18 November 1811), officer in the Portuguese army and artist. Born in Italy, Julião began a military career in Portugal in 1763 and by 1800 had been promoted to colonel. During his thirty-seven years in military service, he traveled to India, China, and South America. He recorded his travels in a pictorial travel account that was published posthumously in 1960 by the Brazilian National Library. One section of the account consists of forty-three watercolors without text. Entitled Ditos de figurinhos de brancos, negros dos usos do Rio e Serro do Frio, the watercolors depict diverse social and cultural aspects of the Portuguese colony of Rio de Janeiro during the late eighteenth century. They show members of the white elite at work and in their domestic life; slaves working in the mines, at festivals, and in the cities; and Indians. These watercolors are iconographically and sociologically significant because they document daily life in colonial Rio de Janeiro through the eyes of a Portuguese official.

See alsoTravelers, Latin American .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Carlos Julião, Riscos illuminada de figurinhos de brancos e negros dos usos do Rio de Janeiro e Serro do Frio (1960).

Additional Bibliography

Russell-Wood, A. J. R. The Portuguese Empire, 1415–1808: A World on the Move. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

                                    Caren A. Meghreblian

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