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Figueiredo, José de

    Full Name: Figueiredo, José de

    Other Names:

    • José de Figueiredo

    Gender: male

    Date Born: c. 1871-1872

    Date Died: 1937

    Home Country/ies: Portugal

    Subject Area(s): painting (visual works) and Portuguese (culture or style)

    Career(s): curators


    Overview

    historian of Portuguese art; curator of the Museu do Arte antiga; rediscovered and restored the paintings of Nuno Gonçalves; studied at l’école du Louvre; friends with Rodin; president of the Academia de Belas Artes


    Selected Bibliography

    O pinto Nuno Gonçalves. Lisbon, 1910.; Arte portugues primitivo. Lisbon.


    Sources

    Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l’histoire de l’art: de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, p. 449.




    Citation

    "Figueiredo, José de." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/figueiredoj/.


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