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The cathedral, which is Italian Gothic, dating mainly from the I3th century, consists of a nave with eight chapels on each side, and a very high Renaissance domed choir; it contains examples of the Montagnas and of Lorenzo da Venezia.
Towards the end of the i5th century it became the seat of a school of painting strongly influenced by Mantegna, of which the principal representatives were, besides Bartolomeo Montagna, its founder, his son Benedetto Montagna, Giovanni Speranza and Giovanni Buonconsiglio.
AUTHORITIESDr Theophilo Braga, Gil Vicente e as origens do theatro nacional (Oporto, 1898); J. de Brito Rebello, Gil Vicente (Lisbon, 1902); The Portuguese Drama in the 16th Century Gil Vicente, in the Manchester Quarterly (July and October 1897); introduction by the Conde de Sabugosa to his edition of the Auto defesta (Lisbon, 1906).
Matthew's Cathedral, Florida Avenue, Washington, D.C. Benefit concert for Aids research.
TANIA LISBOA, CELLO and MIRIAM BRAGA, PIANO (BRAZIL).
April 10, 2000 Inter-American Development Bank, 1300 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Cultural Center of IDB and the Embassy of Brazil.
