Garcia Fernandes
Garcia Fernandes (died c. 1565) was a Portuguese Renaissance painter. Like many of painters of the time, Garcia Fernandes was a pupil in the Lisbon workshop of Jorge Afonso, who was the court painter of King Manuel I.
In the 1530s he worked in
In Lisbon, he was responsible for the altarpiece of the Trindade Convent and the panel for the St Bartholomew Chapel of Lisbon Cathedral (c. 1537), as well as a large oil painting, The Marriage of Saint Alexis (once known as The Marriage of King Manuel of Portugal) (1541), now in the Museum of São Roque.[1] Fernandes even painted altarpieces commissioned for the cathedral of Old Goa, in Portuguese India, then a part of the Portuguese Empire.
Garcia Fernandes married in 1518 and had at least nine children. His paintings can be seen in several churches and monasteries around Portugal, as well as in the
References
- Jesuitchurch as the new base of their charitable activities. See Joaquim Caetano, Pintura. Colecção de Pintura da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Século XVI ao Século XX (Lisbon: Museu de São Roque, 1998), vol. 1, pp. 20-23.
External links
- Portuguese Renaissance painting (by Maria José Palla).
- Paintings by Garcia Fernandes (Six Centuries of Portuguese Painting website).