Francisco Rebolo

Francisco Rebolo Gonsales, widely known as Francisco Rebolo, or just Rebolo (São Paulo, August 22, 1902 — São Paulo, July 10, 1980), was a Brazilian painter. He was a son of Spanish immigrants that arrived at Brasil in the end of 19th century.

He lived intensely two different life paths: he was a football player (soccer player, in United States terms), from 1917 a 1932. He played for Corinthians, from 1921 to 1927, and for Ypiranga after that. Both have their headquarters in São Paulo city. From 1934 on, he became a painter.

He was founder of Grupo Santa Helena, together with Fulvio Pennacchi, Aldo Bonadei, Humberto Rosa, Manuel Martins, Clóvis Graciano, Mario Zanini, Alfredo Volpi and Alfredo Rizzotti.

Rebolo is considered as one of the most important landscape painters of Brazilian art. His work is estimated in more than 3.000 paintings, hundreds of drawings, and a set of fifty engraving images. Besides landscapes, he also had an important work with portraits and still life paintings, particularly of flowers. Nowadays, Rebolo works figure in the main Brazilian museums, in the collection catalog of cultural and governmental organizations, as well as in privately held collections all over Brazil.

Rebolo was also the creator of the coat of arms of the Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, drawn in the 1930s.