Autorretratos de septuagenários: Henrique Bernardelli e Rodolfo Amoedo no Museu Mariano Procópio

Abstract

The research consists of analyzing Henrique Bernardelli and Rodolfo Amoedo's selfportraits donated to Alfredo Ferreira Lage, in 1929, and later delivered to the Mariano Procópio Museum. Faced with other documents of the period, such as periodical articles, photographs, portraits and self-portraits, it was possible to outline a certain way for painters to exhibit themselves, evidencing a concern with the social position assumed by the profession. In this sense, there was no profound change in this perspective in active old age, when both continued to exercise the profession, however, in the impossibility of prolonging the situation of adjustment between work and aging, their image exposure underwent a change, each with their individuality and in their own circumstances. In any case, they persisted, as much as they could, in showing their figures as dedicated professionals, even in a phase of physical, psychic and social transformations such as senectude.