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João Couto
João Couto (1892 - 1968) was an art historian, specialising in Portuguese painting, who was director of the National Museum of Ancient Art (MNAA) in Lisbon, Portugal. Early training João Rodrigues da Silva Couto was born in Coimbra, in 1892. He studied Law between 1908 and 1913, receiving a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Coimbra, and a degree in Historical-Geographical Sciences in 1914 and 1915 at the Faculty of Letters of the same university, studying under António Garcia Ribeiro de Vasconcelos and, even at that early stage, organising tours for students to visit the artistic heritage of the Coimbra area. In 1914, he started internships at the National Gallery and at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, but had to return to Portugal early due to the start of World War I. After graduation he studied at a teacher training college, preparing a thesis on ''Education through Art'', and then taught at that school while simultaneously studying conservation and museum c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coimbra
Coimbra (, also , , or ), officially the City of Coimbra (), is a city and a concelho, municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2021 census was 140,796, in an area of . The fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Portugal after Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Lisbon, Porto Metropolitan Area, Porto, and Braga, it is the largest city of the Coimbra (district), district of Coimbra and the Centro Region, Portugal, Centro Region. About 460,000 people live in the Região de Coimbra, comprising 19 municipalities and extending into an area of . Among the many archaeological structures dating back to the Roman Empire, Roman era, when Coimbra was the settlement of Aeminium, are its well-preserved aqueduct (watercourse), aqueduct and cryptoporticus. Similarly, buildings from the period when Coimbra was the capital of Portugal (from 1131 to 1255) still remain. During the late Middle Ages, with its decline as the political centre of the Kingdom of Portugal, Coimbra beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
