11 Facts About Portuguese Renaissance

Portuguese Renaissance refers to the cultural and artistic movement in Portugal during the 15th and 16th centuries.

The new trade of items with the newly discovered lands is what allowed the Portuguese Renaissance to be funded, by creating a wealthy Portuguese nobility and merchant class.

The assimilation with the Italian Renaissance arts model only really begins around 1540, when Portuguese Renaissance artists start breaking away from their national norms and adapt their works to the classicist Italian and Spanish model, though still keeping a Portuguese nature.

In terms of architecture, much like many sections of the arts, the Portuguese Renaissance did not, for the most and initial part, follow the paths of the other Renaissances, which heavily focused on the sophistication and simplicity of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Portuguese Renaissance painting was largely in contact with Flemish style.

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Portuguese Renaissance was the inventor of several measuring apparatus, including the nonius, to measure fractions of a degree.

Portuguese Renaissance produced a plethora of poets, historians, critics, theologians, and moralists, of whom the Portuguese Renaissance was their golden age.

Standardization of the Portuguese Renaissance language started in 1536, when Fernao de Oliveira published his Grammatica da lingoagem portuguesa, the first literary piece that laid rules and standards for the Portuguese Renaissance language.

Great interest in philology, during the Portuguese Renaissance, spread the use of etymological spellings, creating Portuguese words through justification of their Latin roots.

The 1576 Orthographia da lingoa portuguesa, by Duarte Nunes de Leao, a great pioneer in the study of Portuguese Renaissance orthography, was one of the major works in support for the greater Latinisation of the Portuguese Renaissance language.

Portuguese Renaissance was a golden age for literary works in Portugal.