A cavalaria como imagem de mundo:

manu militare e ambivalências políticas

Abstract

This paper circumscribes aspects of significant complexity present in a photograph that, in its circulation, spanned a century and a half, accu- mulating sediments from Brazilian public life. By connecting image and ima- gery, the photograph of the eight knights became a symbolic object. Amidst the ambivalence to which it belongs, it was established as a founding image that, stemming from the family, social and political order, gives precedence to militarism and perceives it as an organizing power in Brazilian republican life.