Brazil Banknotes 500000 Cruzeiros banknote 1993 Mario de Andrade
Central Bank of Brazil - Banco Central do Brasil
Obverse: Portrait of Mario Raul de Morais Andrade (1893-1945), Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, photographer; design of Andrade's photowork; lines from Andrade's well- known poem of his entitled "Eu sou trezentos" (I am Three Hundred). Inscription: "God Be Praised" (Portuguese: DEUS SEJA LOUVADO).
Reverse: Mario Andrade is surrounded by children and Martinelli Building in Sao Paolo.
Watermark: The Effigy of the Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: Efígie da República) is used as a national personification, both in Brazil and in Portugal, symbolizing the Republic.
See-through register: Muiraquitã frog.
Colors: violet, brown, orange, green.
Size: 140 x 65 mm.
Printer: Casa da Moeda do Brasil (CMB).
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Mário de Andrade
Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) in 1922. He has had an enormous influence on modern Brazilian literature, and as a scholar and essayist — he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology — his influence has reached far beyond Brazil.
Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São Paulo for twenty years. Trained as a musician and best known as a poet and novelist, Andrade was personally involved in virtually every discipline that was connected with São Paulo modernism, and became Brazil's national polymath. His photography and essays on a wide variety of subjects, from history to literature and music, were widely published. He was the driving force behind the Week of Modern Art, the 1922 event that reshaped both literature and the visual arts in Brazil, and a member of the avant-garde "Group of Five." The ideas behind the Week were further explored in the preface to his poetry collection Pauliceia Desvairada, and in the poems themselves.
After working as a music professor and newspaper columnist he published his great novel, Macunaíma, in 1928. Work on Brazilian folk music, poetry, and other concerns followed unevenly, often interrupted by Andrade's shifting relationship with the Brazilian government. At the end of his life, he became the founding director of São Paulo's Department of Culture, formalizing a role he had long held as the catalyst of the city's — and the nation's — entry into artistic modernity.
Martinelli Building
Martinelli Building, with 30 floors, was the first skyscraper in Brazil. It is located in São Paulo.
The construction of the building began in 1922 and it was inaugurated in 1929 with 12 floors. The construction of the building followed until 1934. The work ended when the building had 30 floors (130 meters). The building was designed by Italian Brazilian entrepreneur Giuseppe Martinelli.
The building was completely remodeled by Mayor Olavo Setúbal in 1975. It was remodeled again in 1979. Today, the building houses the Departments of Municipal Housing and planning, companies Emurb and Cohab-SP, the headquarters of the Association of Banks of SP, and several shops in the ground floor of the building.