Nuno Gonçalves

Nuno Gonçalves
Effigy of Nuno Gonçalves in the Monument of the Discoveries, in Lisbon, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
Known forRenaissance art
Notable workSaint Vincent Panels
MovementPortuguese Renaissance
Patron(s)Afonso V of Portugal

Nuno Gonçalves (c. 1425 – c. 1491, fl. 1450–71) was a Portuguese artist whose work initiated the Portuguese Renaissance in painting. He was court painter for Afonso V of Portugal from 1450 to 1471, and in 1471 he was appointed the official painter for the city of Lisbon. His surviving masterpiece is the polyptych known as the Saint Vincent Panels.

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