Gregório Lopes
Gregório Lopes (c. 1490 – 1550) was one of the most important Renaissance painters from Portugal.
Biography
Gregório Lopes was educated in the workshop of
The work of Gregório Lopes mainly consists of painted religious altarpieces for various churches and monasteries in central Portugal. Between 1520 and 1525 he worked (together with Jorge Leal) in painting altarpieces for the Saint Francis Convent of Lisbon. Also in the 1520s he painted panels for the Church of Paraíso (Paradise), also in Lisbon. In his first fase, Gregório Lopes also worked in Sesimbra, Setúbal, and in the Monastery of Ferreirim, in this latter case together with Cristóvão de Figueiredo and Garcia Fernandes.
The painter moved in the 1530s to the city of
Many of Gregório Lopes' works can be seen in the National Museum of Ancient Art, in Lisbon. His son, Cristóvão Lopes (1516–1594), was also an artist and worked as a portrait painter for the Portuguese royal family.
References
- Portuguese painting in the Age of Humanism (by Joaquim Oliveira Caetano).
- Portuguese Renaissance painting (by Maria José Palla).
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