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Agramonte Cemetery
The Agramonte Cemetery is a cemetery in the city of Porto, in Portugal which dates back to 1855. History The cemetery was opened in 1855, in the western part of the city. It was a public cemetery opened hastily in response to a cholera outbreak, for which the main cemetery of the city, the Cemetery of Prado do Repouso, which had opened sixteen years earlier, and the existing private cemeteries, proved unsuitable. The cemetery chapel was built between 1870 and 1874, designed by engineer Gustavo Adolfo Gonçalves, and expanded in 1906 by architect José Marques da Silva. The Byzantine-style frescoes were the work of Italian painter Silvestro Silvestri, in 1910.The cemetery contains private cemeteries of three Religious orders; the Carmelites, the Order of Friars Minor and the Trinitarians, who had negotiated with Porto City Council to have private areas within Agramonte to replace their cemeteries, which were in danger of being closed down. In the 1870s the authorities started to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau E Vitória
Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória is a civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso Santo Ildefonso () is a former civil parish in the municipality of Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Po ..., Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau and Vitória. The population in 2011 was 40,440,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 5.43 km2. It covers the historic part of the city of Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Teixeira Lopes
António Teixeira Lopes (27 October 1866–21 June 1942) was a Portuguese sculptor. Life Teixeira Lopes was the son of sculptor José Joaquim Teixeira Lopes and started learning his art in his father's workshop. In 1882 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts (''Escola de Belas Artes'') in Porto, where he continued his education with celebrated artists like sculptor António Soares dos Reis and painter João Marques de Oliveira. In 1885 he left for Paris, where he entered the École des Beaux-Arts and became a distinguished student. Around 1895, together with his brother, architect José Teixeira Lopes, he built his atelier in Vila Nova de Gaia, which nowadays houses a museum (the Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes) dedicated to his work. He was professor of the School of Fine Arts of Porto for many years. Works Teixeira Lopes dealt mostly with allegoric, historical and religious themes, using clay, marble and bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cemeteries In Portugal
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, a columbarium, a niche, or another edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both continue as crematori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomásia Veloso
Tomásia Veloso (in the old spelling Thomazia Velloso), stage name of Tomásia Carlota de Jesus Alves (1864 –1888), was a Portuguese stage actress and operetta singer. Early life Veloso was born on 22 April 1864 at 130, Rua de Santa Marta, in the former civil parish of Coração de Jesus in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. She was the daughter of José Henrique Alves and Carlota Porfíria dos Santos Veloso, who were both actors. She made her debut in 1870, at the age of six, at a theatre in Setúbal, in the play ''Le Vieux Caporal'' (The old corporal) by Dumanoir and Adolphe d'Ennery, in which she played the son of the corporal. Shortly after, she left for Porto with her mother. Acting career In 1878, António de Sousa Bastos, a leading figure in the Portuguese theatrical scene, formed a company to perform in the ''Teatro do Príncipe Real'' (later the '' Teatro Apolo'' in Lisbon. He was advised to send for a young woman from Porto who had reportedly shown great talent in small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro De Oliveira
Pedro Luiz Burmann de Oliveira (born 17 February 1992 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian Sprint (running), sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He represented his country at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, 2013 and 2015 World Championships in Athletics. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. International competitions Personal bests Outdoor *200 metres – 20.81 (+0.8 m/s, São Paulo 2013) *400 metres – 45.52 (São Paulo 2012) References External links * 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Porto Alegre Athletes from Rio Grande do Sul Brazilian male sprinters Olympic athletes for Brazil Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Brazil Pan American Games athletes for Brazil Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games Competitors at the 2013 Summer Universiade 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Brazil-athletics-bio-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Blanco López
Pedro Blanco López ( León, July 14, 1883 – Porto, May 1, 1919), was a Spanish composer, pianist, teacher and music critic. Biography Source: Pedro Blanco López was the son of the musician Mateo Blanco del Río and Emilia López y Moya. He began his musical studies with his father in León. Starting in 1897, he studied at the National School of Music in Madrid with teachers such as Felipe Pedrell and Andrés Monge. With them, as well as with Tomás Bretón, he maintained an important epistolary relationship throughout his life. At the Conservatory of Music and Declamation, as the National School was renamed at the turn of the century, he obtained the First Prize for Piano in 1902. In Madrid, he began a career as a pianist that took him to Porto, where he lived from 1903 until his death. There he married his student Clementina Nogueira and had two children. Shortly after his arrival in Portugal, he joined a literary and artistic circle in the coastal city of Espinho, which i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Júlio Dinis
Júlio Dinis, pseudonym of Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho (14 November 1839 – 12 September 1871) was a Portuguese medical doctor and poet, playwright and novelist. He was the first great novelist of modern Portuguese middle-class society. His novels, extremely popular in his lifetime and still widely read in Portugal today, are written in a simple and direct style accessible to a large public. His first attacks of tuberculosis forced him to resign as deputy professor at the medical school of Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c .... He had already published several tales of country life in the Jornal do Porto. Retiring to the coastal town of Ovar for his health, he wrote the novel for which he is best known, '' As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor'' (1867; "The Dean's Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Sá E Costa
Helena Moreira de Sá e Costa (26May 19139January 2006) was a pianist, concert performer and teacher. Early life and education She was the granddaughter of Bernardo Valentim Moreira de Sá (founder of the Porto Music Conservatory) and daughter of the pianist Leonilda Moreira de Sá e Costa and the pianist and composer Luís Costa. Her sister Madalena was a cellist. She completed her course at Lisbon National Piano Conservatory with a maximum mark of 20 out of 20, having been taught by her parents and Vianna da Motta. She also studied with Alfred Cortot and Edwin Fischer. Career She performed with Fischer in 40 concerts in Europe's major cities, playing J. S. Bach's keyboard concertos nos. 2, 3 and 4. She performed in Europe, North America and, Brazil, Angola and Mozambique. She worked with all the Portuguese orchestra conductors, including Ernest Ansermet, Igor Markevitch, Paul Klecki and Swarowky. Among the artists she worked with in concert performances were Pierre Fourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonçalo Sampaio
Gonçalo António da Silva Ferreira Sampaio (29 March 1865 in São Gens de Calvos – 28 July 1937 in Porto) was a Portuguese botanist. He studied mathematics at the University of Coimbra and chemistry, mineralogy and botany at the Polytechnic Academy of Porto. From 1890 he served as an assistant naturalist at the Polytechnic Academy. From 1912 to 1935 he was a professor of botany at the faculty of sciences of the University of Porto. In 1923 Sampaio issued the exsiccata ''Lichenes de Portugal''. As a taxonomist he described around 50 new species of vascular plants, five new species of desmids and about 70 new taxa of lichens that included the genus ''Carlosia'' (family Caliciaceae). The mycological genus ''Sampaioa'' (Gonz. Frag., 1923; syn. '' Mycoglaena'') commemorates his name. Selected works * ''Estudos sobre a flora dos arredores do Porto. Gen. Spergularia'', 1904 – Studies on the flora in the vicinity of Porto; genus ''Spergularia''. * ''"Rubus” portuguezes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Cardoso (engineer)
Edgar Cardoso (11 May 1913 – 5 July 2000) was a noted Portuguese civil engineer and university professor. In Portugal, Edgar Cardoso was a pioneer of experimental analysis of structures and of high precision instruments developed to measure parameters affecting structural behavior on small models of his own works. Early life Cardoso was born in Resende and studied civil engineering at the University of Porto, in Porto, where he graduated in 1937. On 5 August 1935 Edgar Cardoso received a guideline to carry out a first period of training at the Port of Leixões to study the engineering works being carried out at the Port under the authority of the engineer Gervásio Leite. Cardoso's report was presented at the university on 23 October to high acclaim and given a grade of 16 points (out of 20) by the professors Teotónio Rodrigues and Antão de Almeida Garrett. Edgar Cardoso carried out at least one other period of training in Bragança in the JAE (national authority for Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berta Alves De Sousa
Berta Alves de Sousa (8 April 1906 – 1 August 1997) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese pianist and composer. Biography Candida Berta Alves de Sousa was born in Liège, Belgium. She grew up in Porto, Portugal and studied at the Music Conservatory. She continued her studies in Paris with Wilhelm Backhaus and Theodor Szántó for piano and George Mingot for composition, and in Lisbon with Vianna da Motta. She also studied orchestral conducting with Clemens Krauss in Berlin and Pedro de Freitas Branco in Lisbon. After completing her studies, Alves de Sousa took a position at the Music Conservatory of Porto in 1946 teaching chamber music, (she later became chair) and performed as a concert pianist, accompanist and conductor. She also worked as a music critic for the newspaper ''O Primeiro de Janeiro'' in Porto. In 1941, she was awarded the Prix de Sa Moreira established by Orpheon Portuense. Alves de Sousa passed away in Porto at the age of 91, and her documents are archived by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Carneiro
António Teixeira Carneiro Júnior (16 September 1872 – 31 March 1930) was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, poet and art professor. Biography Born into a working-class family, at the age of seven, he was abandoned by his father and lost his mother not long after. In 1879, he was placed in an orphanage operated by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia. It was there that he received his basic education and had his first drawing lessons.Biography : "António Carneiro, Antigo Estudante da Academia de Belas-Artes do Porto" from the . His talent was noticed early and thanks to the efforts of his teacher and the school's director, he was able to enroll at the "" in 1884, where he stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
