Born between 1420 and 1430, Nuno Gonçalves was a painter at the court of King Afonso V.
His masterpiece for the Lisbon cathedral was destroyed in the 1755 earthquake, and his other work themed after Saint Vincent (São Vicente in Portuguese), the patron saint of Lisbon and of the royal house of Portugal, was missing until 1882, when it was discovered in the São Vicente convent.
It is considered one of the most important works of 15th-century Portuguese painting.
