Florbela by Carlos Botelho Painting

Carlos Botelho or Bottelho Chaves, 1964 is a Portuguese painter and sculptor. He currently lives in Lisbon. He created the Monument to the Fireman. Born in Chaves , district of Vila Real - Trs-os-montes - Portugal, in his childhood he study by the books of medicine of XVIII [...]

At the age of sixteen he show for the first time, Drawings and Paintings in the Museum of the City Chaves with the support of the City council. He made secondary studies that interrupted for in existence of compatible graduation with his vocation, having opted by law not so right as he should as a local newpaper wrote! At 2006 he continues his graduation at the Lusofona University of Humanities and Technologies, the course of "Sciences of Comunication and Culture" - and the specialization of Cultural Management.