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.