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Antonio Saura (1930 - 1998) - Spain (Huesca)
Antonio Saura (September 22, 1930 – July 22, 1998) was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters to emerge in Spain in the fifties whose work has marked several generations of artists and whose critical voice is often remembered. He began painting and writing in 1947 in Madrid while suffering from tuberculosis, having already ...... |
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Lluis Borrassa (1375 - 1425) - Spain (Girona)
Lluís Borrassà (died 1424/1426) was a Catalan painter born in Girona. He died in Barcelona. He is widely considered to have introduced the International Gothic painting style into Catalonia. More...... |
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Xavier Valls (1923 - 2006) - Spain (Barcelona)
Xavier Valls Subirà (1923–2006) was a Spanish painter who lived in Paris most of his life. He specialised in still lifes. His work can be found in museums in Spain. He was the father of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. Xavier Valls was born on 18 September 1923 in Barcelona, Spain. His father, Magí Valls, served on the editorial board of El Matí...... |
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Vicente Masip (1475 - 1545) - Spain (Andilla)
Vicente Masip (also Vicente Macip) (Andilla, 1475 - Valencia, 1545) was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period. His son was Juan Vicente Masip, and his grandson was named Vicente Masip Comes, also known as Vicent de Joanes. Born in Andilla, he was influenced by Paolo de San Leocadio and Rodrigo de Osona on the Quattrocento style. He is conside...... |
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Alejandro Obregón (1920 - 1992) - Spain (Barcelona)
Alejandro Obregón Rosės (4 June 1920 – 11 April 1992) was a Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver. Obregón was born in Barcelona, Spain, the son of a Colombian father and a Catalan mother. The Obregón family owned a textile factory in Barranquilla, Colombia. Most of his childhood was spent in Barranquilla and Liverpool, England. After ...... |
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Benjamin Palencia (1894 - 1980) - Spain (Barrax)
Benjamín Palencia (7 July 1894 − 16 January 1980) was a Spanish painter and draftsman from Barrax, Albacete. Most notably he became known as co-founder of the School of Vallecas (together with sculptor Alberto Sánchez. The quintessence of the large body of his work is perhaps the poetry of the Castilian landscape as defined by the Generation of '98...... |
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Francisco Bores (1898 - 1972) - Spain (Madrid)
Francisco Bores (Madrid, May 6, 1898 - Paris, May 10, 1972) was an important figure of twentieth-century European art. His presence was fundamental in the second wave of Spanish artists who arrived in Paris in the 1920s, in which he included Pablo Picasso, Ginés Parra, Pedro Flores, Antoni Clavé although in his own country he was not really recogni...... |
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Antonio Carnicero Y Mancio (1748 - 1814) - Spain (Salamanca)
Antonio Carnicero (1748–1814) was a Spanish painter of the Neoclassical style. In addition to his paintings, over the course of his career he also produced prints and engravings as well as creating theatrical decorations. Carnicero was born in Salamanca on 10 January 1748. His father, the sculptor Alejandro Carnicero, went to the court of Madrid in...... |
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Bartolomé Ordóñez (1480 - 1520) - Spain (Burgos)
Bartolomé Ordóñez (c. 1480 – 6 December 1520) was a Spanish Renaissance sculptor. Little is known about Ordóñez before the last five years of his life. His will indicates that he was an hidalgo born in Burgos, and that he had a sister named Marina in that city. Assuming this is correct, he would have grown up amidst the first flowering of the Spani...... |
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José De Creeft (1884 - 1982) - Spain (Guadalajara)
José Mariano de Creeft (1884-1982) was a Spanish-born American artist, sculptor, and teacher known for modern sculpture in stone, metal, and wood, particularly figural works of women. His 16 ft bronze Alice In Wonderland climbing sculpture in Central Park is well known to both adults and children in New York City. He was an early adopter, and promi...... |
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José Benito Churriguera (1665 - 1725) - Spain (Madrid)
José Benito de Churriguera (21 March 1665 – 2 March 1725) was a Spanish architect, sculptor and urbanist of the late-Baroque or Rococo style. He was born in Madrid to a Catalan cabinetmaker, gilder and altarpiece joiner, Josep Simó Xoriguera i Elies and to doña Maria de Ocaña, and studied under his father along with two of his brothers. His excessi...... |
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Antonio Bisquert (1596 - 1646) - Spain (Valencia)
Antonio Bisquert Pérez (June 29, 1906, Valencia - June 8, 1990, Madrid) was a Spanish painter and restorer. He participated in the Junta for the Preservation and Protection of Spain’s Artistic Treasures during the Spanish Civil War. Antonio Bisquert Pérez was born in Valencia in 1906 and manifested an artistic vocation already in his childhood. In ...... |
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Eugenio Hermoso Martínez (1883 - 1963) - Spain (Fregenal De La Sierra)
Eugenio Hermoso Martínez (Fregenal de la Sierra, February 26, 1883 – Madrid, February 2, 1963) was a Spanish painter active in Badajoz. He was a professor of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, and a contemporary of Benito Arias Montano and Juan Bravo Murillo. Hermoso was a student of Gonzalo Bilbao and José Jiménez Aranda in Seville...... |
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Enrique Martinez Cubells (1845 - 1914) - Spain (Madrid)
Salvador Martínez Cubells (9 November 1845, Valencia – 21 January 1914, Madrid) was a Spanish painter and art restorer, who specialized in history painting and Costumbrismo. He received his first art lessons from his father, Francesco Martínez Yago (1814–1895), who was also a painter. Among his first works was "Baile de labradores" (Peasants' Dance...... |
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Juan Ribalta (1597 - 1628) - Spain (Valencia)
Juan Ribalta (1597 – October 1628) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. He was born and died in Valencia. His father, Francisco Ribalta, was a famous painter, active in the style of Caravaggio. Some sources said he was born in Madrid and later moved to Valencia. His mother Inés Pelayo died in 1601. Juan's works and style are similar to that...... |
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Eugenio Cajes (1575 - 1634) - Spain (Madrid)
Eugenio Caxés (1574/75 – 15 December 1634) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. He was born into a Florentine family in Madrid, and wrote his name in a variety of ways (Cajés, Cazés, Caxesi, and Caxete). His father, Patricio, was a disciple of Alessandro Allori and was recruited to Spain by the ambassador Luis de Requesens. Caxés painted in...... |
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Federico Castellon (1914 - 1971) - Spain (Isla De Alborán)
Federico Castellón ((1914-09-14)September 14, 1914 – (1971-07-29)July 29, 1971) was a Spanish-American painter, sculptor, printmaker and illustrator of children's books. Castellón was born on Isla de Alborán, Spain, studied in Madrid and Paris and settled in Brooklyn, New York. Federico Cristencia de Castellón y Martínez, better known as Federico C...... |
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Aurelio Arteta (1879 - 1940) - Spain (Bilbao)
Aurelio Arteta Errasti (2 December 1879, Bilbao - 10 November 1940, Mexico City) was a Basque painter who worked in several styles including Symbolism, Cubism and Social Realism. He is remembered mostly for his murals. His father was a farmer and laborer. He began his artistic education at the School of Arts and Crafts in Bilbao. In 1894, his famil...... |
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Juan Martinez Abades (1862 - 1920) - Spain (Gijón)
Juan Martínez Abades (7 March 1862, Gijón - 19 January 1920, Madrid) was a Spanish painter in the Naturalist style, who specialized in seascapes and other maritime scenes from the Cornisa Cantábrica. He was also a talented song writer and semi-professional singer His father was an industrialist and he received his secondary education at the Real In...... |
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Antonio Fillol Granell (1870 - 1930) - Spain (Valencia)
Antonio Fillol Granell (3 January 1870, Valencia - 15 August 1930, Castellnovo) was a Spanish painter in the Social Realist style known for his depictions of the people and customs of Valencia. His father was the owner of a small shoe shop, where he worked when he was a boy, using his spare time to pursue his artistic interests. Eventually, his fam...... |
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Albert Ràfols-Casamada (1923 - 2009) - Spain (Barcelona)
Albert Ràfols-Casamada (2 February 1923 – 17 December 2009) was a Catalan painter, poet and art teacher involved in the vanguard movements of his time. He is considered one of the most important, multifaceted Catalan artists of his time. His artwork began in the post-expressionist, figurative sphere but soon developed into his own abstract style gr...... |
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Joaquin Mir Trinxet (1873 - 1940) - Spain (Barcelona)
Juaquin Mir Trinxet (1873 – 1940) was a Catalan Spanish artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known by the color of his paintings. They helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme. Mir Trinxet was born in Barcelona in 6 January 1873. His family was from a well-off Catalan family. Hi...... |
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Julio Peris Brell (1866 - 1944) - Spain (Valencia)
Julio Peris Brell (29 January 1866 – 9 December 1944) was a Valencian painter. Peris Brell's paintings are distinguished by the power of his technique for analysing and translating different light aspects, specially in landscapes genres, portrait and still life. Julio Peris Brell was a Valencian painter born in the street ‘En Bany’ of València, Spa...... |
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Narciso Tomé (1690 - 1742) - Spain (Toro)
Narciso Tomé (1690–1742) was a Spanish architect and sculptor of the late-Baroque or Rococo period. Born in Toro. With his brother, Diego, he sculpted in 1715, the facade of the University of Valladolid. In 1721, he was named master of the cathedral of Toledo, for whom he constructed the famous Altarwork, the Transparente (1721–1732), and example o...... |
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Blas De Ledesma (1556 - 1598) - Spain
Blas de Ledesma (floruit 1602-1614) was a Spanish painter of the reign of Philip III. He is mentioned by Pacheco as a successful imitator of the frescoes of Julio and Alessandro. More...... |
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Alonso Perez Spain
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Master Of Budapest Spain
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Master Of The Catholic Kings Spain
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Juan Reixach Spain
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Master Of Avila Spain
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Juan Bautista Cuiris Spain
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