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- Title
Columbano in his time (1857-1929).
- Authors
de Campos Rodrigues de Moura ELIAS, Margarida Maria Almeida
- Abstract
Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (1857-1929) was a Portuguese painter who lived and worked in one of the richest periods of the Portuguese cultural history. His father, Manuel Maria Bordalo Pinheiro, was a romantic artist (painter, sculptor and engraver) and his elder brother, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, was a famous caricaturist and ceramist. Columbano studied in the Lisbon Academy of Art (1872-1876) and he went to Paris with a scholarship (1881-1883). When Columbano came back to Lisbon he joined the Grupo do Leão, a Portuguese group of painters who dedicated themselves to the representation of landscapes and custom scenes, in a naturalistic style. Columbano preferred to paint portraits and intimist paintings, so gradually he started to move apart from that group. His works were best understood by the poets and the writers, who were also the models of his portraits. On the other hand, Columbano made numerous still life and intimist paintings that reflected his taste for silent, dark and closed rooms. Devoted to Camões and Os Lusíadas, he made a lot of works with themes related to that subject and linked with patriotic and nationalist ideals, popular in his time. Columbano lived through the end of the Monarchy and through the First Republic, when he received several commissions, among them the design of the republican flag (1911). He was also nominated for distinguished positions, namely as the Director of the Musem of Modern Art, in Lisbon.
- Subjects
BORDALO Pinheiro, Columbano; PORTUGUESE painting; STILL life painting
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p574
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract