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Francis searched for the poverty and dispossession of the material things. However, the passage of the life of the saint for the construction of the Franciscan order properly speaking make these aims being subject of several contents. From the peregrination towards the stable settlements, between the hermitage and the city, it will be concerned several aspects of the material dimension of the seraphic experience, in relation to its house in the world. Attention will be paid to the place where the Franciscans had been occupied, specially focusing on the situation of the convent in the urban environment, about its medieval location even the precepts of the implantation and attributes in the city. It was considered the most significant facts during the period of the life of the saint and the episodes of the history of the Order in its process of expansion in the followed centuries, from the context of Assisi towards the whole world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research aims to understand the genesis of the idea of Brazilian nation through the nineteenth century's iconography, approaching the study of images and deepening into the analysis of four artworks: Engenho da cachoeira. Corte de cana-de-açúcar by Hércule Florence, Primeira Missa no Brasil by Victor Meirelles, O Grito do Ipiranga by Pedro Américo and Evangelho das Selvas by Benedito Calixto. Besides the pictures we paid attention to the texts belonging to the same period, mainly those produced by the cultural elite related to the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (IHGB), to the travel reports as text-images, as well as to the emergence of the Instituto and of the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (AIBA) in a context of pursuit of homogeneity in the promising Brazilian nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]