Guided Tour — Season 1, Episode 5: Museu Grão Vasco, Viseu

Episode synopsis

The first Indian in the history of Western art is Portuguese. Grão Vasco and his collaborators painted him on the panels of the altarpiece of the Sé de Viseu. A surprising fact: the Portuguese arrived in Brazil in 1500 and these panels began to be painted in 1501. Did Grão Vasco have access to the descriptions of the Indians of Brazil from the letter of Pêro Vaz de Caminha? A fantastic period that transformed European life and imagination.

About Guided Tour

Guided Tour is a television and radio program about the treasures of the Portuguese cultural heritage. Treasures with recognized universal value, pieces that any western country would be proud to integrate into its heritage, and little known to the Portuguese. From a silver goblet with Mozarabic decoration and a thousand years old to a cloister that is referred to as a masterpiece of European Renaissance, passing through a collection of African art classified as one of the best in the world, the nature of objects, their context geographic location and historical time vary from episode to episode.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Sé de Braga
• E2Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisboa
• E3Museu Machado de Castro e Convento de Santa Clara-a-Nova, Coimbra
• E4Museu de Alberto Sampaio, Guimarães
• E7Convento de Cristo, Tomar
• E8Convento da Madre de Deus, Lisboa
• E9Mosteiro de Tibães, Braga
• E10Universidade de Coimbra
• E11Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea-Museu do Chiado, Lisboa
• E12Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisboa
• E13Museu Soares dos Reis, Porto