Amadeo de Sousa Cardoso

Amadeo Ferreira de Sousa Cardoso was born in Manhufe, Amarante, on November 14, 1887, into a large, rural bourgeois family that was cultured and deeply Catholic. After attending high school in Amarante and later in Coimbra, he enrolled in 1905 in a preparatory drawing course at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon. The following year, he moved to Paris with the intention of studying architecture. However, the study and continuous practice of drawing, especially caricature, which occupied him most at the time, led him to embrace painting as his vocation and destiny.