biography
pronunciation:
[gonsalves]
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| male
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| lived:
| (fl.1450–72)
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| biography:
| Portuguese painter. He is recorded, in 1463, as court painter to Alfonso V (ruled 1416–28). He was virtually forgotten until the discovery of his only extant work, an altarpiece for the convent of St Vincent in 1882. This work established him as the most important Portuguese painter of the 15th-c, and the founder of the Portuguese school of painting. |
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