The Golden Age of the Portuguese Renaissance

June 10, 2022 October 10, 2022 Exhibition has ended

In Lisbon, the capital of the kingdom facing the ocean, the arrival of Flemish painters influenced the history of European painting. After the first lights of Nuno Gonçalves (active from 1450 and before 1492), the Lisbon workshops, federated around Jorge Afonso (active between 1504 and 1540), adopted a new way of painting, based on a perfect mastery of the oil technique. These painters combined bluish landscapes imbued with poetry, precious fabrics and accessories, details of refined architecture ...
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The Golden Age of the Portuguese Renaissance - Exhibition catalogue

MX009694

€ 29

Written in French.

When the reign of Manuel I began in 1495, Lisbon, the capital of the kingdom of Portugal, was a multicultural city where wealth, new ideas and people from far away were flowing in. Within a refined court, artistic production echoed this opening to the world; the Lisbon workshops, supported by the royal commission, adopted a new way of painting, operating a very original synthesis between the pictorial inventions of the Flemish and Italian Renaissance and Portuguese culture.

This book is a tribute to the talent of the Portuguese painters of the first half of the 16th century and to this crucial moment in the history of European painting.

Exhibition « The Golden Age of the Portuguese Renaissance », at the musée du Louvre in partnership with the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisbon, Portugal) from 10 June to 10 October 2022.

Written in French.
128 pages / 62 illustrations

Coédition musée du Louvre, Paris / In Fine éditions d'art

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