- Gregório Lopes
Gregório Lopes (c.
1490 -1550 ) was one of the most importantRenaissance painters fromPortugal .Gregório Lopes was educated in the workshop of King Manuel I's royal painter,
Jorge Afonso . Later he became royal painter of both Manuel I and his successor, John III. In 1514 he married the daughter of Jorge Afonso, and in 1520 was knighted by PrinceJorge de Lencastre and entered theOrder of Santiago .The work of Gregório Lopes mainly consists of painted religious
altarpiece s for various churches and monasteries in central Portugal. Between 1520 and 1525 he worked (together with "Jorge Leal") in painting altarpieces for the Saint Francis Convent ofLisbon . Also in the 1520s he painted panels for the Church of Paraíso (Paradise), also in Lisbon. In his first fase, Gregório Lopes also worked inSesimbra ,Setúbal and in theMonastery of Ferreirim , in this latter case together withCristovao de Figueiredo andGarcia Fernandes .The painter moved in the 1530s to the city of
Tomar , where he painted various panels for the Round Church of theConvent of Christ (1536-1539) and the main altarpiece of the Church of Saint John the Baptist (1538-1539). His last known works include altarpieces for the Convent of Santos-o-Novo in Lisbon (1540) and the Valverde Convent, nearÉvora (1545).Many of Gregório Lopes' works can be seen in the
National Museum of Ancient Art , in Lisbon. His son,Cristóvão Lopes (1516-1594), was also an artist and worked as a portrait painter for the Portuguese royal family.References
* [http://joaquimcaetano.wordpress.com/amor-fama-e-virtude/ao-modo-de-italia/ Portuguese painting in the Age of Humanism (by Joaquim Oliveira Caetano).]
* [http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/deps/estportugueses/Escritos/Em_torno_do_Renascimento_em_48_%20obras.pdf Portuguese Renaissance painting (by Maria José Palla).]External links
* [http://www.uc.pt/artes/6spp/gregorio_lopes.html#top Paintings by Gregório Lopes (Six Centuries of Portuguese Painting website).]
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