Culture wars in Brazil

About this book

At the height of the authoritarian Estado Novo, the infamous Department of Press and Propaganda published an essay, written by Oswaldo Teixeira, director of the National Museum of Fine Arts and well-known painter, which acclaimed Getulio Vargas as a peer to Cosimo de Medici, the wealthy fifteenth-century banker who helped make Florence into the political and cultural epicenter of the Italian Renaissance.