Almeida Júnior — Saudade, 1899. Painting: oil on canvas, 197 x 101 cm. Pinacoteca
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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