Alexandre Herculano shares with Almeida Garrett the title of most important writer of the first generation of Romanticism in Portugal. Poet, historian, novelist, polemist, essayist, and editor, Herculano was a key figure in nineteenth-century Portugal,...

Alexandre Hardy, France's first professional playwright and a pivotal figure in the transition from the Renaissance to the classical era, remains underappreciated today. Little is known with certainty about his life. Apart from a handful of statements...

LISBON Alexandre Estrela MUSEO DOCHIADO Though his production also encompasses photography, drawing, sculpture, and installation, video remains Alexandre Estrela's preferred medium. It is the creation of images in general, and the process underlying imagemaking in a technological age in particular, that...

For seventeen years the Lagoya guitar duo enjoyed considerable prestige as the first international duo of its kind, as recording artists, and as the commissioners of a series of works from major composers including Mario Castelnuovo-- Tedesco, Joaquin Rodrigo and Andre Jolivet. Alexandre Lagoya...