Tropical Romantism

Abstract

This article analyses the established relationship between the Brazilian romantic movement from the middle of the nineteenth century and the strengthening  of a ritualistic proper to the Second Empire as much as its importance for the ripening of an image beloved by the Emperor D. Pedro II: the one the of an arts sponsor. On this basis there have been interpretated certain works from the main exponents of that generation - Gonçalves Magalhães, Gonçalves Dias and José de Alencar - in order to verify the importance of the indian´s representation in the imaginary construction from that period. Far from the reality (where they were systematically forgothen or eliminated), in those places the indians were converted in symbols of the nationality and this royalty which lacked identity models, while surroundeds as it way by republics from all sides.