Júlia Lopes de Almeida in "portrait and prose": on the dialogues between some images of the writer and her literary production

Abstract

This article searches to make a pictorial analysis of a selected range of visual documents about the carioca writer Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1862-1934), with a view to identifying the possible dialogues among these images and the way in which they describe, pictorially, even though backwardly, the link between the writer and belletrism. These pictorial documents were taken from her personal archive, among which we can find some photographs - some of which were published on newspapers of her time -, three artistic portraits and two drawings. This article reveals, not only the fact that Júlia Lopes held the Art in high esteem, that is "in all its sensitive organizations", but it also has as its background the ample dialogue that these images establish with one of her most recurrent themes, that is, the feminine literary professionalization of the between centuries (19th- 20th).

Júlia Lopes de Almeida; Brazilian Literature; Visual Arts; Photography; Gender