Gaspar Dias

Appearance of the Angel to Saint Roch, ca. 1584, in the Igreja de São Roque in Lisbon

Gaspar Dias (died 1671), a Portuguese painter, studied at Rome under Raphael and Michelangelo, and on his return home devoted himself to the production of church pictures. He died at Lisbon.

Gasper Dias and Dona Paula are two fictitious characters in Indian stories related to Goa.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Dias, Gaspar". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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