The genesis of legal protection beyond the monument in Brazil: José Wanderley de Araújo Pinho's project and his dialogues with foreign legislation.

ABSTRACT The present article aims to evaluate the contribution of the congressman José Wanderley de Araújo Pinho to the legal protection of the Brazilian heritage through the analysis of his legislation's proposal n° 230 from 1930. It builds on other researches that seek to reflect on the background of the constitution of Sphan (The National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service) and to deconstruct historical narratives that place the figure of Mário de Andrade at the center of the founding myth of the institution. We establish relations between Pinho's proposal and the Decree-Law n° 25 from 1937, that creats Sphan, and most importantly, we try to identify how the congressman used foreign legislations as reference to his proposal such as the Spanish and Italian's legislations.