• Better known as Grão Vasco ("The Great Vasco").
• Was a Portuguese Renaissance painter.
• Grão Vasco, was born somewhere in the area around Viseu.
• The oldest chronological reference to his name, dating back to the financial year of 1501–1502, refers to him as already married and working as a painter in Viseu.
• There are roughly fifty written documents, mostly kept at the Viseu District Archives and the Torre do Tombo, in Lisbon.
• He worked for the bishops of Viseu and Lamego, namely for the two cathedrals, and for important convents and monasteries in the Douro and Beiras regions, such as Santa Maria de Salzedas, São Francisco de Orgens and Santa Cruz de Coimbra.
• He was on friendly terms with
Jorge Afonso, the official painter of Dom Manuel I, it is quite likely that he learned his skills in Lisbon.
