Pietro Biancovilli: imagens da industrialização no álbum de litografias do Museu Mariano Procópio (1888-1914)

Abstract

This research has the purpose to analize the visual accounts linked to the memory of local graphic industry, studying the settling of the first commercial lithography house in the State of Minas Gerais, the steam litography Pietro Biancovilli. The main source of the research is the “Álbum 6” of lithographies belonging to the collection of the Historical Archive of the Mariano Procópio Museum Foundation, with 130 pieces of commercial prints belonging to this lithography. It has been analized documental sources found in the Memory Department of the Municipal Library Murilo Mendes, in the Historical Archive of Juiz de Fora and in the Public Archive of Minas, where it has been examined periodicals and documents related to the arrival and production of the italian lithographer Pietro Angelo Biancovilli. The time researched begins in 1888, when the foreigner arrives to Brazil, and it ends in the year of 1914, when he closes his commercial activities. Regarding to the propositions of Cultural History, this research conveives the examination of practices and representations of images, forged in the Juiz de Fora life in the end of 19th Century and in the first decades of the 20th Century.