The Life and Training of Augusto Bracet Born in Rio de Janeiro on 14 August 1881, Augusto Bracet grew up in a city that was beginning to find its own visual language. He was a man of many disciplines, working as a painter, a drawer, and a professor. His early years were shaped by the formal structures of the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA), where he would eventually find his footing and begin his long relationship with the insti…