Behind the Paints

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In the 17th century in Brazil, works of art were created with scenes of enslavement inserted in landscapes that are attempts at Eurocentric descriptions idealizing slavery as an exotic and even beautiful world to appreciate. What is behind the beauty of the painting “Engenho de Mandioca” by the Spanish Modesto Brocos, through the narrative vision of a woman portrayed in the background of this painting.