Abstract
This project aims to investigate the presence of Lionello Venturi (Modena, 1885 - Rome, 1961), in South America, and in a more detailed way in Brazil, in the period from the 1940s, with the beginning of the institutionalization of modern art here, especially with the creation of the former MAM of São Paulo, until the 1960s (after the critic's death), when his name figures in numerous ways…