Vasco Fernandes e os pintores de Viseu do século XVI. História da Pintura em Portugal.

Lisbon, Edição do Autor, 1946.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (32.5 x 25 cm.), publisher's boards with illustrated dust jacket (jacket with 2 short tears, 3 tiny pieces missing, small dampstain at foot of spine, light soiling). Title page printed in red and black. Light browning. Overall in good to very good condition. (1 l.), color frontispiece with tissue guard, 84 pp., (1 l.), LXXVIII pages with black-and-white illustrations. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.The historian, author and art critic Luís Santos Reis (1898-1967), a native of Turcifal (Torres Vedras), studied scientific processes for examining works of art in 1934 at the Institute Carlo Mainini in Paris, continuing these studies in Porto from 1934 to 1936. He held various administrative posts and university level teaching positions in Portugal, and wrote a number of books dealing with the history of art and architecture.*** See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 534-5. On the paintor Vasco Fernandes, also known as Grão Vasco, see Pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses (2nd ed.) II, 276-84