As imagens do artista pela caneta do crítico : o "Grão Vasco" na historiografia da arte de Luís Reis Santos (1930- 1967)

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on the reception of the Grão Vasco’s paintings in the Luís Reis Santos’s (1898-1967) historiography of art. Critic, connoisseur and collector, Reis Santos wrote two works about this painter, published in 1946 and 1962, successively cited until our days, that virtually pacify the subject. These texts are addressed here based on the comprehension that a historiographical operation can be understood through a combination of the social historian place, with their scientific practices and his writing, full of experiences and expectations. The main objective is to realize how, and also why, for what, to whom, Luís Reis Santos, in his very specific context - political, social or intellectual - built his own understanding of the Grão Vasco’s paintings, deconstructing a myth and raising a new on.