Background
Gregorio Lopes was born in Portugal in 1490.
Gregorio Lopes was born in Portugal in 1490.
Gregório Lopes was educated in the workshop of Jorge Afonso, the court painter of King Manuel I.
The work of Gregório Lopes mainly consists of painted religious altarpieces for various churches and monasteries in central Portugal.
Between 1520 and 1525 he worked (together with Jorge Leal) in painting altarpieces for the Saint Francis Convent of Lisbon. Also in the 1520s he painted panels for the Church of Paraíso (Paradise), also in Lisbon. In his first fase, Gregório Lopes also worked in Sesimbra, Setúbal and in the Monastery of Ferreirim, in this latter case together with Cristóvão de Figueiredo and Garcia Fernandes.
The painter moved in the 1530s to the city of Tomar, where he painted various panels for the Round Church of the Convent of Christ (1536–1539) and the main altarpiece of the Church of Saint John the Baptist (1538–1539).
Adoração dos Pastores
Adoração dos Pastores
Apresentação do Menino no Templo
Assunção da Virgem ladeada de anjos músicos
Cristo no Horto
Enterro de Cristo
Martírio de São Sebastião
Morte da Virgem
Nascimento de São João Baptista
Portrait of Vasco da Gama
Pregação de São João Baptista
Ressurreição de Cristo
Salomé apresentando a cabeça do santo
Visitação
Visitação
In 1514 Gregorio married the daughter of Jorge Afonso.