Cristóvão de Figueiredo
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Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
painter.
Like many other important painters of the time, Cristovão de Figueiredo was a pupil of Master Jorge Afonso
Jorge Afonso
Jorge Afonso was an important Portuguese Renaissance painter.Jorge Afonso was nominated royal painter in 1508 by King Manuel I and again in 1529 by John III. He was mainly based in Lisbon, with a workshop near the Church of São Domingos...
, in Lisbon
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, in the early 16th century. He later worked together with Francisco Henriques
Francisco Henriques
Francisco Henriques was a Flemish Renaissance painter active in Portugal in the early 16th century.Around the year 1500 Francisco Henriques came to Portugal from Bruges, where he may have been a disciple of Gerard David...
, Garcia Fernandes
Garcia Fernandes
Garcia Fernandes 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....
and Gregório Lopes
Gregório Lopes
Gregório Lopes was one of the most important Renaissance painters from Portugal.Gregório Lopes was educated in the workshop of Jorge Afonso, the court painter of King Manuel I. Later he himself became court painter for both Manuel I and for his successor, John III...
in executing various altarpiece
Altarpiece
An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych for two,...
s in Lisbon.
Between 1522 and 1533, Cristovão de Figueiredo worked in the Santa Cruz Monastery
Santa Cruz Monastery
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in Coimbra
Coimbra
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and, in 1533, again joined Garcia Fernandes and Gregório Lopes in painting altarpieces for the Monastery of Ferreirim, near Lamego
Lamego
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.
Many of his paintings are now in the National Museum of Ancient Art
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(Lisbon) and the Machado de Castro Museum (Coimbra).