About Álvaro Pires de Évora
Portuguese · 1390–1450
Portuguese[1]-born Quattrocento painter active in Tuscany, known for Annunciation panels blending Florentine and Sienese influences.
Read full biography →Álvaro Pires de Évora's works are held in 11 museums worldwide, including John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Museo de Arte de Worcester, and National Museum in Warsaw.
🇫🇷 France
3 museums
- 1 works
Musée du Petit Palais
Petit Palais in Avignon, France
- 1 works
Louvre
Paris, France
Wed–Mon 09:00–18:00 (Fri until 21:45); closed Tue€22 adults, free under-18Palais-Royal – Musée du Louvre (1, 7)Confirm on museum website before visiting. - 1 works
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon
Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, France
🇩🇪 Germany
1 museum
- 1 works
Gemäldegalerie Berlin
Berlin, Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
1 museum
- 1 works
Galleria d'arte moderna di Milano
Royal Villa of Milan, Italy
🇵🇱 Poland
1 museum
- 2 works
National Museum in Warsaw
Aleje Jerozolimskie, Poland
Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00; closed Mon25 PLN adults, free on TuesdaysCentrum (M1)Confirm on museum website before visiting.
🇷🇺 Russia
1 museum
- 1 works
Hermitage Museum
Winter Palace, Russia
Tue, Thu, Sat–Sun 10:30–18:00; Wed, Fri 10:30–21:00; closed Mon500 RUB adults (Russian residents), 1000 RUB internationalAdmiralteyskaya (5 (Frunzensko-Primorskaya))Confirm on museum website before visiting.
🇨🇭 Switzerland
1 museum
- 1 works
Kunstmuseum Bern
Kunstmuseum und Kunsthistorisches Seminar (building), Switzerland
🇺🇸 United States
3 museums
- 4 works
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Sarasota, United States
- 2 works
Museo de Arte de Worcester
Worcester, United States
- 1 works
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City, United States
Sun–Tue, Thu 10:00–17:00; Fri–Sat 10:00–21:00; closed WedAdults $30, students $17 (pay-what-you-wish for NY residents)86 St (4, 5, 6)Confirm on museum website before visiting.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who was Álvaro Pires de Évora?
Álvaro Pires de Évora was a Portuguese[1] painter. The first documented record of him places him in Tuscany in 1410, working on frescoes for the facade of the Palazzo del Ceppo in Prato alongside Niccolò di Pietro Gerini and other Florentine painters.What is Álvaro Pires de Évora known for?
Álvaro Pires de Évora is known for his panel paintings. Giorgio Vasari observed that, in comparison to Taddeo Bartoli, he "made the colouring more brilliant and the figures lower."What was Álvaro Pires de Évora's art style?
Álvaro Pires de Évora worked within the Florentine Primo Quattrocento tradition. His surviving Annunciation panels show debts to Sienese precedent; the Madonna figure follows Lorenzo Monaco, while the angel's wings quote Simone Martini's Annunciation in the Uffizi.
Sources
Where to See guide aggregates verified holdings of Álvaro Pires de Évora's works across the following collections.
- [1] wikipedia Wikipedia: Álvaro Pires de Évora Used for: biography.
- [2] book Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin;, Art Patronage and Conflicting Memories in Early Modern Iberia Used for: biography.
- [3] book Rolf Toman and Achim Bednorz, Gothic: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting Used for: biography.
- [4] book Mark Lamster, Master of shadows Used for: biography.
- [5] book Cuttler, Charles D, Northern painting from Pucelle to Bruegel: fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries Used for: biography.
- [6] book Charles D. Cuttler, Northern Painting From Pucelle to Bruegel Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries Used for: biography.
- [7] book 1892-1968, Panofsky, Erwin,, Tomb sculpture: four lectures on its changing aspects from ancient Egypt to Bernini Used for: stylistic analysis.
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