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A rug with the calyx and leaf
border can be seen in "Jesus in the House of Marta" (c. 1535), by Vasco Fernandes
(better known as Grão Vasco), now in the Grao Vasco Museum, Portugal.
Vasco Fernandes (c.1475-c.1542), better known as Grao Vasco, was one of the main
Portuguese Renaissance painters.
Vasco Fernandes was probably born in Viseu, in Northern Portugal, where he began
his career in the team of painters executing the main altarpiece of Viseu
Cathedral (1501–1506). Between 1506 and 1511 he painted the main altarpiece of
Lamego Cathedral. After working in the Santa Cruz Monastery of Coimbra, Vasco
Fernandes returned to Viseu and executed a series of altarpieces for Viseu
Cathedral, considered his main works.
Most of his paintings hang nowadays in the Grao Vasco Museum, in Viseu.
A line of Portuguese wines are labelled with his masterpiece under the name Grao
Vasco.