Rodrigo Melo Franco | |
Birth Date: | 17 August 1898 |
Birth Place: | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Death Place: | Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara, Brazil |
Movement: | Modernism |
Signature: | Rodrigo Melo Franco de Andrade Assinatura.jpg |
Rodrigo Melo Franco de Andrade (1898–1969) was a Brazilian art critic and historian. He served as director of preservation of artistic heritage of Brazil at the Ministry of Education.[1] He is credited, among many similar discoveries, with reviving interest in Antônio Francisco Lisboa.[2] He is the author of Monumentos Históricos y Arqueológicos de Brasil (Mexico, 1952).