Grão Vasco

Grão Vasco
Born	Vasco Fernandes c.1475 Viseu
Died	c.1542
Nationality	Portuguese
Style	Baroque

Vasco Fernandes (c.1475-c.1542), better known as Grão Vasco, was one of the main Portuguese Renaissance painters.

Life

Vasco Fernandes was probably born in Viseu, in Northern Portugal, where he began his career in the team of painters executing the main altarpiece of Viseu Cathedral (1501–1506). Between 1506 and 1511 he painted the main altarpiece of Lamego Cathedral. After working in the Santa Cruz Monastery of Coimbra, Vasco Fernandes returned to Viseu and executed a series of altarpieces for Viseu Cathedral, considered his main works.

St Peter in his throne (c.1530), one of the masterpieces of Vasco Fernandes, formerly in Viseu Cathedral and now in the Grão Vasco Museum in the same town.

Most of his paintings hang nowadays in the Grão Vasco Museum, in Viseu.

Works

• Last Supper

Legacy

A line of Portuguese wines are labelled with his masterpiece under the name Grão Vasco.

References

Jesus in the House of Marta (c. 1535), by Grão Vasco, now at the Grão Vasco Museum

• http://www.masterworksartgallery.com/FERNANDES-Vasco

Spources

• Cristina Nabais; Dalila Rodrigues (1 September 2014). As coleções de escultura em madeira do Museu Grão Vasco e do Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga: um contributo da ciência para a Arte. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-989-26-0530-2. 
• Grão Vasco; Galeria de Pintura do Rei D. Luís (Lisbon, Portugal); Comissão Nacional para as Comemorac̜ões dos Descobrimentos Portugueses (1992). Grão Vasco e a pintura europeia do Renascimento: Galeria de Pintura do Rei D. Luís, 17 março a 10 junho 1992. Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, em colaboração com Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, Instituto Português do Património Cultural, Instituto Português de Museus. 

External links

• Paintings by Vasco Fernandes in Six Centuries of Portuguese Painting website.

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