Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 2020; 115(6): 1047-1050
Painting the History of Brazilian Cardiology
Marcelo Antônio Cartaxo Queiroga Lopes
, Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira
, Evandro Tinoco Mesquita
, Marcelo Dantas Tavares de Melo, Fernando Bacal
The mural painted by the visual artist Flávio Tavares for the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC), The Heart of the Tropics, is an eloquent witness of his unique talent as a painter ( ). The mural portrays the development of Brazilian cardiology. It comprises three juxtaposed acrylic-on-canvas panels, measuring 6.30m of length and 1.80m of height, with real and imaginary characters illustrating more than one century of the practice of cardiology in the largest nation of the tropics. Similarly to the most famous mural on the history of world cardiology painted by Diego Rivera in 1944 for the Instituto de Cardiología de México , the mural by Flávio Tavares is a legacy for the history of Brazilian cardiology.
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