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The Portuguese Renaissance refers to the cultural and artistic movement in Portugal during the 15th and 16th centuries. Though the movement coincided with the Spanish and Italian Renaissances, the Portuguese Renaissance was largely separate from other European Renaissances and instead was extremely important in opening Europe to the unknown and bringing a more worldly view to those European ...
There was already a Flemish influence on illuminations. The Livro de Horas de D. Duarte (1426 or 1428) is a very fine example of the art of Flemish illumination of the period to have reached Portugal. The first known painter may be Álvaro Pires de Évora (fl. 1411-1434, presumably born in Evora).
The architecture of the Portuguese Renaissance intimately linked to Gothic architecture and gradual in its classical elements. The Manueline style (circa 1490–1535) was a transitional style that combined Renaissance and Gothic ornamental elements to buildings that were architectonically closer to Gothic architecture, as is the Isabelline style of Spain.
The style was much influenced by the astonishing successes of the voyages of discovery of Portuguese navigators, from the coastal areas of Africa to the discovery of Brazil and the ocean routes to the Far East. Although the period of this style did not last long (from 1490 to 1520), it played an important part in the development of Portuguese art.
A copy of Francisco's portrait of King John III of Portugal. Francisco de Holanda embraced the aesthetic values of the Renaissance. His paintings strongly expressed the desire to stimulate personal originality and provide a link between nature (the pure mirror of the Creator) and the ancients – immortal masters of greatness, symmetry, perfection and decorum.
The history of the Kingdom of Portugal from the Illustrious Generation of the early 15th century to the fall of the House of Aviz in the late 16th century has been named the "Portuguese golden age" (Portuguese: Século de Ouro; "golden century") and the "Portuguese Renaissance". [1] [2] During this period, Portugal was the first European power ...
Nuno Gonçalves (c. 1425 – c. 1491, fl. 1450–71) [1] [2] was a Portuguese artist whose work initiated the Portuguese Renaissance in painting. [3] He was court painter for Afonso V of Portugal from 1450 to 1471, and in 1471 he was appointed the official painter for the city of Lisbon. [4]
Jesus in the House of Marta (c. 1535), by Grão Vasco, now at the Grão Vasco Museum. The economic importance of the dioceses of Viseu and Lamego, the social, political and cultural prestige of their bishops, members of the prime nobility and advisers to the king, the region's powerful religious centres, the success enjoyed by painting at the time, and, of course, the painter's artistic merit ...