A transição histórica em O pintor de retratos de Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil.

This paper aims to explore the historical markers in the novel The portrait painter, by the writer Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, and their significance. We examine how such markers are organized in such a manner as to reveal the characteristics of the new historical novel. They do so by representing various expressions of historical transition from the Old to the New World and from the 19th to the 20th century, specifically the changes brought on by the Second Industrial Revolution. Overlapping this context, we move alongside protagonist Sandro Lanari in his personal transition as he journeys chronologically, geographically and psychologically towards maturity. Finally, we appreciate how the historical commentary also mirrors, in metafictional fashion, the transition of the novel as genre and of the author's literary body of work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]