Traveling with Eckhout: A Road Map for Traveler-Teachers

Invites teachers to embark with their students on a journey to 17th-century Brazil through the paintings of Albert Eckhout. Makes connections between art, science and cultural identity via the history of Dutch colonization in Brazil. Helps traveler-students to achieve new insights into others, themselves and the world they live in.

Contents:
. Teacher's Study Book with timeline of the Dutch presence in Pernambuco.
. Set of "Art Apprenticeship" games.
. Magnifying glass to appreciate details of Eckhout's work.

"The Dutch artist was enthralled by Brazil, immortalizing in his art the multifariousness and luxuriance of its nature, the ethnic mix of its people, and its different culture, neither barbarian nor European."

Joaquim Falcão,
Vice President of Instituto Ricardo Brennand

Production:
Instituto Ricardo Brennand  

Cultural support:
Cia. Editora de Pernambuco
Banco Real

Educational consulting:
Instituto Arte na Escola