Álvaro Pires de Évora, or Alvaro di Piero (before 1411 – after 1434), was a Portuguese painter.

Biography

He is assumed to have been born in

Évora Évora ( , ), officially the Very Noble and Ever Loyal City of Évora (), is a city and a municipalities of Portugal, municipality in Portugal. It has 53,591 inhabitants (2021), in an area of . It is the historic capital of the Alentejo reg ...

, Portugal and is known for religious works made between 1411 - 1450.Alvaro Pirez d'Évora
in the

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He was first mentioned in

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's 1568 update to his ''

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'' (in English, ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects''). As a short addendum to his biography of

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, Vasari wrote "There lived at the same time and painted in almost the same manner, although he made the colouring more brilliant and the figures lower, one ''Alvaro di Piero, a Portuguese'', who made many panels in

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, and one in S. Antonio in Pisa, and others in other places".Alvaro di Piero, a Portuguese
in Vasari translation on

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References

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1410s births 1440s deaths Portuguese painters Portuguese male painters People from Évora 15th-century Portuguese painters {{Portugal-painter-stub