The love story of Pedro and Inês. Historical subjects and Naturalism in portuguese eighteenth-century painting

Abstract

Subject widely spread by Camões’ poem Os Lusíadas, the tragic episode of Inês de Castro was translated to visual arts, in particular history painting, with Romanticism. Referring to Quinta das Lágrimas, it also implies the motive of landscape, in harmony with Naturalism and the approach to Impressionism aesthetic values by portuguese artists. An overture to modernity, which encompasses photography and still the confluence with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, resizing the myth in nineteenth-century identity-related imagery of national art.