The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum houses one of the world's most important private art collections. It includes works from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century, spanning the arts of the Islamic World, China and Japan, as well as the French decorative arts, the jewellery of René Lalique and some of the most important painters of all times works such as Rembrandt, Monet, Rubens, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Turner.
Manuel Rodrigues Coelho was a Portuguese organist and composer. He is the first important Iberian keyboard composer since Cabezón.
Carlos Botelho was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, comics artist, political cartoonist, satirist and caricaturist, whose works are shown at the Chiado Museum and at the Modern Art Centre José de Azeredo Perdigão / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon. Botelho was one of the most relevant Portuguese artists of his generation.
Francisco Laranjo was a Portuguese contemporary painter and educator.
Manuel Botelho is a Portuguese artist. He lives and works in Estoril, Portugal, and teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon.
Sofia Areal is a Portuguese abstract painter, whose works adhere mostly to organic non-geometrical forms and a strong chromatic focus. Besides painting and drawing, Areal's work involves collage, textile design, and scenography.
Álvaro Perdigão was a Portuguese painter.
Portuguese comics are comics created in Portugal or by Portuguese authors. Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Carlos Botelho, and João Abel Manta are some of the most notable early Portuguese cartoonists.
Alberto Carneiro was a Portuguese artist.
Ana Hatherly was a Portuguese academic, poet, visual artist, essayist, filmmaker, painter, and writer. She was considered one of the pioneers of the experimental poetry and experimental literature movement in Portugal.
Maria de Lourdes Belchior Pontes• Großes Verdienstkreuz • GCRB • Officier • GCIH • ComSE • GCIP •, was a Portuguese writer, poet, professor and diplomat who lived in Portugal, Brazil, France and the United States of America.
José Pedro Croft is a visual artist. Considered as one of the main representatives of the revival of Portuguese sculpture, he is widely known for his geometric sculptures and paintings.
Salette Tavares was a Portuguese writer, poet and essayist, best known for her visual poetry.
Rosa Carvalho is a Portuguese artist.
Ângela Ferreira is a Portuguese and South African installation artist, video artist, photographer and sculptor. She spends time in both countries.
Fernanda Fragateiro is a Portuguese artist and sculptor who mainly collaborates with architects and landscape architects.
Susanne S. D. Themlitz is an installation artist who has Portuguese and German nationality. She has exhibited widely in Portugal, Germany and Spain.
Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira, was a Portuguese painter and poet. He is better known by the two pseudonyms he used: Júlio, as a painter; and Saul Dias as a poet. He was an important artist of the second generation of Portuguese Modernism. His art features a strong expression of lyricism and artistic explorations that could be connected with the expressionist and surrealist movements.
Maria Alice da Silva Jorge was a Portuguese painter, engraver, ceramicist, and book illustrator and co-author of a book on engraving for students. Initially following a neorealist style, her work later became more abstract. One of the most important personalities in the Portuguese engraving renewal movement of the 1950s, she was banned from teaching art for 19 years because of her support for the families of political prisoners.
