page_title: Luís de Camões
section_title: In culture
hierarchical_section_title: Luís de Camões / In culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Effigy of Luís de Camões (c. 1524-1580), widely considered the greatest poet of the Portuguese language, in the Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument to the Discoveries), in Lisbon, Portugal. Português: Efígie de Luís de Camões (c. 1524-1580), o maior poeta da Língua Portuguesa, no Padrão dos Descobrimentos, em Lisboa, Portugal.
context_page_description: Luís Vaz de Camões is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas. His collection of poetry The Parnasum of Luís de Camões was lost in his lifetime. The influence of his masterpiece Os Lusíadas is so profound that Portuguese is sometimes called the "language of Camões".
context_section_description: Camões is the subject of the first romantic painting from a Portuguese painter, A Morte de Camões (1825), by Domingos Sequeira, now lost.
  He is one of the characters in Gaetano Donizetti's grand opera Dom Sébastien, Roi de Portugal.
  Camões figures prominently in the book Het verboden rijk (The Forbidden Empire) by the Dutch writer J. Slauerhoff, who himself made several voyages to the Far East as a ship's doctor.
  A museum dedicated to Camões can be found in Macau, the Museu Luís de Camões.
  In Goa (India) the Archeological Museum at Old Goa (which used to be a Franciscan monastery) houses a 3 meters high bronze statue of Luís de Camões. The statue was originally installed in the garden in year 1960 but was moved into the museum due to public protest after Goa's annexation to India. Another Camões monument in Goa, India – "Jardim de Garcia da Orta Garden" (popularly known as Panaji Municipal Garden) has a 12 meter high pillar in the center.
  A seamount in the Indian Ocean is named after him.
  Institute Menezes Braganza in Panaji, Goa has grand Azulejos adorning its walls. These ceramics depict scenes from Os Lusíadas.
caption: Effigy of Luís de Camões on the Monument to the Discoveries, in Lisbon, Portugal.
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