Saint Vincent, Patron Saint of Lisbon

São Vicente is an oil painting on oak wood painted about 1520-30 by the painter of Flemish origin active in Portugal in the period of manueline Frei Carlos. It is unknown what temple this painting was destined for. It is currently in the National Museum of Ancient Art (Lisbon) by long-term deposit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). In 1958, a U.S. citizen bequeathed two wood paintings to the MET. For his classification, a met conservator sent the photograph of St. Vincent to Luís Reis Santos, professor at the University of Coimbra, who had no doubt in attributing the authorship of the work to Friar Carlos.Frei Carlos is the abbreviated form of the monastic name "Frei Carlos de Lisboa" adopted by a Flemish painter who professed in 1517 in the Monastery of Santa Maria do Espinheiro, near Évora, one of the first foundations of the Order of S. Jerónimo in Portugal. In the document of his religious profession, on April 12, 1517, of the few existing about his life, he himself assumes his nationality: "I friar carlos de Lisboa framengo do profissam (...)". Saint Vincent represents the holy patron martyr of Lisbon in an elegant figure of deacon envering a beautiful dalmatic and showing the canonical attributes of the saint, the palm of martyrdom and a book closed in his left hand and the miniature of a nau drawn with great rigor in his right hand.