José Rodrigues Nunes

A flagelação, Museu de Arte da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

José Rodrigues Nunes (11 April 1800, Salvador, Bahia - 27 November 1881, Salvador, Bahia) was a Brazilian artist who worked primarily in Salvador, Bahia. He was primarily a painter, but also worked in the fields of decoration, restoration, and set design. He was a student of (1780-1833) and is the final painter of the Bahian School of Painting (Portuguese: Escola Baiana de Pintura). Nunes taught drawing at between 1837 and 1859. His students included , , (1825-1893), , and his son, . In addition to being a teacher, he worked as a scenographer at the São José Theater (Portuguese: Teatro São José) for many years. He is considered one of the representatives of the final phase of Bahian colonial painting. A series of paintings by Nunes is part of the personal collection of the Bahian physician (1796-1868). He also produced portraits of Bahian religious figures and politicians.^[1][2][3]

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Nunes carried out several works, including:

• Paintings of the Church of Nosso Senhor do Bonfim, assistant to Franco Velasco, 1818-1820
• Ceiling painting of the nave of the , completing the work of Franco Velasco in 1833, and produced ten additional paintings in the same church in 1834; his painting of the Madonna is stylized after a work of the Benedictine friar
• Paintings for the Church of Saint Peter of the Clergymen, 1839^[1]
• Side panels of the nave of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament at Rua do Passo, 1860; and paintings of The Passion of Christ (Ceia do Senhor) and the Transfiguration of Christ (Transfiguracao de Cristo), 1855^[2][3]

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