Luís de Camões – Biographical information from the WeGA

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Portrait c. 1577 (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cam%C3%B5es,_por_Fern%C3%A3o_Gomes.jpg

Basic data

Camões, Luís Vaz de Alternative Names
1524 (other sources: 1525) in Coimbra or in Lissabon
†

June 10, 1579 (other sources: June 10, 1580) in Lissabon
Dichter, Dramatiker, Erzieher, Offizier
Lissabon, Ceuta

Iconography

Portrait c. 1577 (Source: Wikimedia)

Coat of arms of Luís de Camões. (Source: Wikimedia)

Camões, early 20th century depiction (Source: Wikimedia)

Camões in Goa prison, in anonymous painting from 1556 (Source: Wikimedia)

Camões in the cave of Macau, in an engraving by Desenne, 1817 (Source: Wikimedia)

Camões reading Os Lusíadas to King Sebastian, in lithography from 1893. (Source: Wikimedia)

Tomb of the poet at the Jerónimos Monastery (Source: Wikimedia)

The portrait painted in Goa, 1581 (Source: Wikimedia)

Andries Pauwels: Bust of Camões, 17th century (Source: Wikimedia)

Cover of the 1572 edition of Os Lusíadas (Source: Wikimedia)

Tethys describes the World Machine to Gama, illustration from the 1639 edition of Faria e Sousa (Source: Wikimedia)

Cover of the first edition of Rimas, 1595 (Source: Wikimedia)

Cover of the 1615 edition of Filodemo (Source: Wikimedia)

Philip II of Spain (Source: Wikimedia)

Luís de Camões Statue in the Edifício do Instituto para os Assuntos Municipais (Leal Senado) in Macau, China (Source: Wikimedia)

Monument to Luís de Camões, Lisbon (Source: Wikimedia)

Luís de Camões Statue in the Archaeological Museum of Old Goa, India (Source: Wikimedia)

Effigy of Luís de Camões on the Monument to the Discoveries, in Lisbon, Portugal. (Source: Wikimedia)

Monument to Luís de Camões in Paris (Source: Wikimedia)

Bildnis des Luís Vaz de Camões, Wilhelm Devrient - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Luís Vaz de Camões, Geyser, Christian Gottlieb - 1780 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Lvis de Camoens, 1626/1700 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Luís Vaz de Camões, Moreau - (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Luís Vaz de Camões, Wilhelm Devrient - (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Luís Vaz de Camões, Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen - (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Luís Vaz de Camões, Hoffmann, Carl Ludolf - (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Camoes, Luiz de, (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Camoes, Luiz de, (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Camoes, Luiz de, (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber. Digital Edition, https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A001F74 (Version 4.11.0 of July 1, 2024)
Last change of this document on January 21, 2024

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