Ricardo Brennand Institute
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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The Ricardo Brennand Institute (IRB) is a Brazilian cultural institution located in the city of Recife, in the Várzea neighborhood. It is an institute, founded in 2002 by Pernambuco collector and entrepreneur Ricardo Brennand. The institute is housed in a medieval-style architectural complex consisting of three buildings: São João Castle Museum, Pinacoteca and Gallery, surrounded by a vast park.
It has a permanent collection of historical and artistic objects of various origins, spanning the period from the Lower Middle Ages to the twentieth century, with a strong emphasis on historical and iconographic documentation related to the colonial period and Dutch Brazil, including the world's largest collection of Frans Post's paintings, with fifteen works.
The institute also houses one of the largest collections of melee weapons in the world, with over 3,000 pieces, mostly from Europe and Asia, produced between the 14th and 21st centuries. The institute's library has more than 62 thousand volumes, dating from the 16th century onwards, highlighting the collections of brasiliana and rare works.
The institute was founded by Ricardo Brennand, an entrepreneur and collector from Pernambuco of English descent, born in Cabo de Santo Agostinho in 1927. Brennand was prominent in the Northeastern sugarcane industry, also working in the cement, tile, glass, porcelain and steel. In the 1940s, he began to collect armory, especially white weapons, consolidating in the following decades what would become one of the largest private collections of this type in the world.
In the 1990s, Brennand decided to invest the capital resulting from the sale of part of his factories in creating a cultural foundation for the preservation and exhibition of his collection. Even before the inauguration of the institute, began to acquire works of art and objects related to the history of Brazil, especially the years of Dutch occupation of the Northeast. Within a few years, Brennand has amassed a vast array of Frans Post paintings, as well as seventeenth-century landscapes and portraits, maps, tapestries, coins, documents, rare books, and other objects on this subject.
The Ricardo Brennand Institute was inaugurated in September 2002, with the traveling exhibition Albert Eckhout returns to Brazil (also mounted at the Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo, the Caixa Cultural Complex of Brasília and the Imperial Palace of Rio de Janeiro), which presented for the first time to the Brazilian public the complete set of Eckhout paintings belonging to the National Museum of Denmark.8 The following year, the institute inaugurated the permanent exhibition Frans Post and Dutch Brazil in the Ricardo Brennand Institute Collection, attended by Queen Beatriz from the Netherlands, Prince William Alexander and Princess Maxim Zorreguieta.
In addition to permanent and temporary exhibitions, the institute offers guided tours, art history courses, an educational program for students from Pernambuco's public and private education systems, art education programs for teachers and cultural activities in general.
The Ricardo Brennand Institute is housed in a building complex called São João Castle, inspired by the Tudor style, with a built area of 77,000 square meters. It is a contemporary construction, combined with some original decorative elements such as a drawbridge, embossed coats of arms and a Gothic style altar. The complex includes the Armory Museum, the library, the art gallery, a 120-seat auditorium, guest service areas, technical reserve and technical-administrative spaces.
Surrounding the complex is a vast 18,000-hectare park, lined with man-made lakes and large-scale sculptures, such as a recent foundry by Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, a copy of Michelangelo's David, The Lady and the Horse of Fernando Botero and other pieces by Sonia Ebling and Leopoldo Martins, among others.
The Ricardo Brenand Institute's collection is composed of armories, decorative arts, tapestry, sculptures, furniture and visual arts, covering the period from the Low Middle Ages to the twentieth century, with thousands of objects from Europe, Asia, America and Africa.
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