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Portinari

American  
[pawr-tee-nah-ree] / pɔr tiˈnɑ ri /

noun

  1. Cândido 1903–62, Brazilian painter.


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Ironically, the latest heist might serve Portinari well—in terms of international exposure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Portinari, who often painted rural workers and labourers, is one of the most significant Brazilian Modernist artists.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

The oil-on-canvas portrait is by Candido Portinari, and is the only portrait for which the wife of Argentine ruler Juan Peron is known to have sat.

From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022

They join Beatrice Portinari and Francesca da Rimini, the only two historical women from the "Divine Comedy" who had acceptable entries on Wikipedia prior to our work.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2021

That statement was doubtless made within the hearing of many relatives and friends of the families concerned, the Alighieri, the Portinari, the Bardi.

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)

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