Drawing and painting class
Original title: Aula de Desenho e Pintura
Cross-reference to the Industrial School, followed by an account of the secondary classes in Funchal before the lyceum, with 1821 salaries.
- See Industrial School. Secondary classes. Before the lyceum (state secondary school) of Funchal was founded, the following public classes (aula) were held in the city: mathematics, philosophy, rhetoric, French and English, Latin grammar, and Latinity. In 1821 the mathematics teacher had an annual salary of 500,000 réis (old Portuguese money of account; 1$000 = 1,000 réis, 1:000$000 = one conto = 1,000,000 réis); the philosophy teacher 460,000 réis; the rhetoric teacher 440,000 réis; the Latin grammar teacher 400,000 réis; and the Latinity teacher 400,000 réis. The substitute for the first of these chairs received a salary of 250,000 réis; that of the second, 230,000 réis; and those of the third and fifth, 200,000 réis each. The Latin grammar teacher, it seems, had no substitute. All these classes, except French and English, were established under the law of 6 November 1772, which also created a Greek class that never actually opened. The French and English class was created in the time of Governor Dom Manuel de Portugal e Castro. There was also a special chair of drawing, created in 1810, whose teacher received 600,000 réis a year.
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Time
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A royal law established secondary classes of Latin, Greek, rhetoric and philosophy in Funchal and the first six public primary schools in Madeira; the Greek class never opened.
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A class in drawing and painting was created in Funchal, opening in March 1810 under Rocha.
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Salaries of Funchal's secondary teachers are recorded for this year.
Place
Places mentioned · 01
- Funchal
City where the secondary classes operated.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
People
People mentioned · 01- D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro1787–1854
Governor of Madeira in whose time the French and English class in Funchal was created.