São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Art Museum - MASP - Frans J. Post (1612-1680) - Haarlem, Netherlands, painter, draftsman and engraver.
João Maurício de Nassau-Siegen was a German nobleman who became known for his role as governor of Dutch Brazil in the 17th century.
He was appointed by the Dutch West India Company to administer the colony, bringing with him a series of progressive and advanced ideas for the time.
Nassau was a visionary leader and a patron of the arts and sciences, supporting cultural and scientific development in the region.
As a humanist, he stimulated the arts and sciences, thus encouraging investigations into the natural history, botany and zoology of the tropics. Fauna and flora were exhaustively seized as research objects.
In addition, Nassau ordered the construction of an astronomical observatory, a botanical garden and brought with him a delegation of Flemish painting artists and scientists.
The Dutch paintings promoted by Maurício de Nassau emerged due to scientific impetus, it is undeniable that the artistic aura inherent to them is intertwined with epistemological meanings. The symbolic and subjective character that paintings and drawings have allows them to transcend the descriptive content; therefore, becoming sensitive and forceful as a work of art.
His main task in the new lands was to document landscapes, taking notes of ports and fortifications. He is considered the first landscaper to work in the Americas.
Although the presence of artists in the first expeditions sent to America was common, Maurício de Nassau stated, in a letter to Louis XIV, in 1678, that he had six painters at his disposal in Brazil, including Frans J. Post and Albert Eckhout.
They were the first artists in Brazil and America to approach the landscape, ethnic types, fauna and flora as the themes of their artistic productions, free from the prejudices and superstitions that were common in pictorial representations that presented American themes.
image: Image: Brazilian Panorama. Frans Post. 1852 - Restored by technicians from the Rijksmuseum
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