Os tipos brasileiros de Albert Eckhout, a glorificação do exótico e sua repercussão em livros didáticos presentes nos guias PNLD

Abstract

With the Dutch presence in northeastern Brazil has for the first time painters with an academic formation in America in the first part of the seventeenth century, the Dutch painter Albert Eckhout of the court of Maurice of Nassau painted, among other works, a group of eight large canvases of couples, men and women, that is, a typology about the inhabitants of Brazil: Homem Negro, Mulher Negra, Homem Mulato, Mulher Mameluca, Homem Tupi, Mulher Tupi, Homem Tapuia e Mulher Tapuia Dom Miguel de Castro, emissário do Rei do Congo, Servo de D. Miguel de Castro com Cesto decorado, Servo de D. Miguel de Castro com presa de elefante, he dedicated himself to the described painting of catalogs of Brazilian animals and plants. Eckhout's works bring novelties that have changed since then, the forms of representation. In an analysis, their great screens present, through the European vision, a look of appreciation of the exotic that is an understanding of the time, giving a rupture with the American imaginary that there was, innovating the perspective of beauty on America emphasizing its colors, luminosities and ethnic traits. This work have used the high school books available in PNLD Brazilian's catalog, to see how the exotic vision present in narratives and lessons on school books are being influenced by the permanence of this Eurocentric view of Public History and help with it