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\r\nContreiras\u2019 biography has been fully identified, being certain that, between 1521 and 1563, the artist worked in Lisbon for the Kingdom\u2019s most relevant patrons, namely for the Duque of Braganza, Teod\u00f3sio (1510-1563), the Master Commander of the Military Order of Christ, Afonso de Lencastre (ca. 1505-1572), the Royal House nobleman Jo\u00e3o Rodrigues Portugu\u00eas and the renowned Costa family, from \u00c9vora. This broad knowledge has evolved from the 1977-1978 Art History research project developed by Professor V\u00edtor Serr\u00e3o, who identified then the so-called Master of Saint Quentin as being in fact our Diogo de Contreiras.
\r\nUp until Serr\u00e3o\u2019s identification, this Master of Saint Quentin was often confused with the painter Greg\u00f3rio Lopes\u2019 final phase, namely by Lu\u00eds Reis Santos (1898-1967) in 1954, although always autonomized by Reynaldo dos Santos (1880-1970). In 1957, Saint Quentin was thoroughly researched by the Spanish Art Historian Martin Soria (1911-1961), who gathered a group of over thirty paintings that would later be reinforced by V\u00edtor Serr\u00e3o\u2019s attributions.
\r\nThe painting that we are now presenting for sale at auction, depicts Saint Benedict and Saint Bernard, respectively the creator of the Rule and the Reformer of the Order that gave origin to the Cistercians, and was part of a series that belonged to the female Cistercian Convent of Saint Mary of Almoster.
\r\nThe virtuosity of Diogo de Contreiras is evidenced by the depictions of both Saints, Benedict\u2019s and Bernard\u2019s, embroidered capes, and mitres, as well as by the design of the opulent crosiers\u2019 metalwork details, but also particularly by the flawless reproduction of the Turkish rug of fine Holbein design. Figures of typical \u201cContreirian\u201d saints faces \u2013 Saint Benedict and Saint Bernard prevail in a composition that extends itself very skilfully in an interior, depicting the moment of the \u201cLactation of Saint Bernard\u201d, and in an exterior with a Saint Benedict hagiographic moment.
\r\nIn this exceptional painting we face a landmark of 16th century Portuguese painting, a substantiated masterpiece of one of the most significant renovators of Portuguese plastic language in the second quarter of the 16th century.
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\r\nLiterature:
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\r\nAA.VV. \u2013 Gr\u00e3o Vasco e a pintura europeia do Renascimento: Galeria de Pintura do Rei D. Lu\u00eds, 17 mar\u00e7o a 10 junho 1992, Comiss\u00e3o Nacional para as Comemora\u00e7\u00f5es dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, em colabora\u00e7\u00e3o com Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, Instituto Portugu\u00eas do Patrim\u00f3nio Cultural, Instituto Portugu\u00eas de Museus, 1992;
\r\nCAETANO, Joaquim Oliveira - A identifica\u00e7\u00e3o de um pintor in \"Oceanos\", n.\u00ba 13, Lisboa, 1993;
\r\nFLOR, Pedro Almeida \u2013 A autoria do Ret\u00e1bulo de Santa Maria de Almoster por Diogo de Contreiras (1540-1542), in ARTIS, Lisboa, Instituto de Hist\u00f3ria da Arte da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, 2004, n.\u00ba 3, pp. 335-34;
\r\nSERR\u00c3O, V\u00edtor e CAETANO, Joaquim Oliveira \u2013 A Pintura Maneirista em Portugal. Arte no Tempo de Cam\u00f5es, cat\u00e1logo de exposi\u00e7\u00e3o comissariada por Comiss\u00e3o Nacional para a Celebra\u00e7\u00e3o dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, galeria de D. Lu\u00eds, Pal\u00e1cio Nacional da Ajuda, Lisboa, 1995, n.\u00ba 8, pp. 194 e 195.
\r\nSERR\u00c3O, V\u00edtor \u2013 Hist\u00f3ria da Arte em Portugal - o Renascimento e o Maneirismo, Lisboa, 2002
\r\nSERR\u00c3O, V\u00edtor \u2013 Os pain\u00e9is da igreja de Unhos: s\u00e9culos XVI - XVII, Boletim Cultural, n\u00ba 73-74, Lisboa, 1970, p. 27-52;
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