Almeida Júnior — Saudade,1899. Painting: oil on canvas, 197 x 101 cm. Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Braz
Almeida Júnior — Saudade, 1899. Painting: oil on canvas, 197 x 101 cm. Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil. Saudade is an untranslatable Portuguese word. First attested in the late 13th century, saudade today connotes a melancholic feeling of incompleteness, wishful longing for wholeness, desire for presence as opposed to absence, yearning for the return of what has gone, such as experiences and pleasures once lived.RealismMelancholy1890s -- source link
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