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Nuño Gonçalves
(active 1450-1471)
Gonçalves, Nuño (active 1450-71). Portuguese painter, recorded in
1463 as court painter to Alfonso V (1437-81). No works certainly by his
hand survive, but there is a strong circumstantial evidence that he was
responsible for the St Vincent polyptych (Lisbon Museum, c.1460-70),
the outstanding Portuguese painting of the 15th century. The style is rather
dry, but powerfully realistic, and the polyptych contains a superb gallery
of highly individualized portraits of members of the court, including a
presumed self-portrait. There are affinities with contemporary Burgundian
and Flemish art, especially the work of Bouts.
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