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Gonçalves Neto, Estevão
( fl from 1606; d Viseu, 1627). Portuguese painter and illuminator. He was chaplain to the Bishop of Viseu, Dom João Manuel, and from 1613 he was Abbot of S Madalena do Serejo, Pinhel. In 1618 he returned to Viseu to work on the altarpieces for the Capela de S Marta, one of which survives, which was painted on both sides in a rather stylized late Mannerist style. In 1622 he was appointed a canon of Viseu Cathedral. Gonçalves Neto specialized in manuscript illumination, and his work includes the Compromisso da Irmandade do Espírito Santo (1606) of the hermitage chapel (Ermida) of Nossa Senhora dos Remedios, Alfama (in situ); the Livro das Missas de Prima of Viseu Cathedral (in situ); and the remarkable Pontifical (1610–22; Lisbon, Acad. Ciênc.), one of the finest examples of Portuguese Mannerist illumination. The codex of 44 folios on parchment has ornamented borders and 11 excellently composed biblical scenes depicted with precise draughtsmanship and rich colours; it is clearly influenced by the Roman Mannerism of Pellegrino Tibaldi and Federico Zuccaro. This work was dedicated to Bishop João de Melo, who appears to have been a patron of Gonçalves Neto.
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