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Exhibitions and catalogues

Exhibitions

2024–2025

Dona Fulô e Outras Joias Negras

Dona Fulô e Outras Joias Negras

CCBB Salvador · MAC Bahia · Galatea

Curated by Carol Barreto, Eneida Sanches and Marília Panitz. 7 November 2024 – 30 March 2025.

More than fifty thousand visitors saw the exhibition, which brought together crioula jewellery, photographs and objects to tell the history of black women in colonial and imperial Brazil. The catalogue was launched in March 2025.

2017

Arte Sacra XVII–XXI

Arte Sacra XVII–XXI

Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, São Paulo

Curated by Itamar Musse and Charles Cosac. 10 October – 10 December 2017.

Four centuries of Luso-Brazilian religious sculpture set in dialogue with contemporary work.

2018

Semana de Arte

Semana de Arte

Pavilhão das Culturas Brasileiras, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo

1–3 September 2018.

Catalogues and publications

2024

Florindas

Florindas

Cosac, 2024. Boxed set on Bahian jewellery of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The result of research into Florinda Anna do Nascimento, a black woman recorded in 1828.

Jewelry in Bahia from the 18th and 19th Centuries

Jewelry in Bahia from the 18th and 19th Centuries

Itamar Musse Júnior. Photography by José Terra, text by Ana Passos. Bilingual Portuguese–English edition.

2017

Arte Sacra XVII–XXI

Arte Sacra XVII–XXI

Exhibition catalogue. Curated by Itamar Musse and Charles Cosac.

2013

Catalogue 2013

Catalogue 2013

Catalogue of the 2013 exhibition.

2007

Catalogue 2007

Catalogue 2007

Catalogue of the 2007 exhibition.

2003

Catalogue 2003

Catalogue 2003

Catalogue of the 2003 exhibition.

Works that left this house

Destination
Works by José Joaquim da Rocha (1737–1807)Instituto Cultural Vale2023
A piece presented by the Brazilian government to President Dwight EisenhowerPresidency of the United States1960
A pair of tables by Mestre Valentim; a canvas by Adriana Varejão; a Portuguese silver ewer; a terracotta Our Lady of the ConceptionOpening selection, Lisbon gallery2025

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