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    Johann Moritz Rugendas (29 March 1802 – 29 May 1858) was a German painter, famous in the first half of the 19th century for his works depicting landscapes...
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    caught a capoeirista. Between 1822 and 1824, the German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas described capoeira game: Two contestants face each other, each trying...
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    An Afro-Brazilian bounty hunter looking for escaped slaves in an 1823 portrait by Johann Moritz Rugendas....
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    caught a capoeirista. Between 1822 and 1825, the Bavarian painter Johann Moritz Rugendas describes capoeira as a headbutting game: The Negroes also have...
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    million years ago. Serra dos Orgãos during the 1820s. Painting by Johann Moritz Rugendas Serra dos Órgãos as seen from Teresópolis, 1885. Oil on canvas by...
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    "The Discovery of America" (Johann Moritz Rugendas)...
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  • philosophy, and fantasy to offer less a biography of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858) than a surreal account of his journeys through Latin...
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    Capoeira Capoeira or the Dance of War by Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1825, published in 1835 Also known as Jogo de angola Jogo de capoeira Capoeiragem Focus...
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    Public flogging of a slave in Brazil – work of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802–1858)...
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    The Discovery of America (Johann Moritz Rugendas)....
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