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Ignacio Zuloaga ( July 26, 1870 - October 31, 1945) was a Spanish painter, born at Eibar, in the Basque country, the son of the metalworker and damascener Plácido Zuloaga, and grandson of the organizer and director of the royal armoury in Madrid.The career chosen for him by his father was that of an architect, and with this object in view he was sent to Rome, where he immediately followed the strong impulse that led him to painting. After only six months' work he completed his first picture, which was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1890. Continuing his studies in Paris, where he lived for five years, he was strongly influenced by Paul Gauguin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Only on his return to his native soil he found his true style, which is based en the national Spanish tradition embodied in the work of Diego Velasquez, Francisco de Zurbaran, El GrecoEl Greco ( Spanish for "the Greek") is the name by which Domenikos Theotokopoulos ( 1541 April 7, 1614), a Cretan-born painter and sculptor, is best known. He was a master painter in Crete; he journeyed to Rome where he studied under Titian. In 1577 he em, and Francisco GoyaThis article is about Francisco Goya a Spanish painter. For other uses of the name Goya, see Goya (disambiguation Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes ( March 30, 1746 April 15, 1828) was a Spanish painter and engraver. He was born in Fuendetodos and later.
His own country was slow in acknowledging the young artist whose strong, decorative, rugged style was the very negation of the aims of such well-known modern Spanish artists as Fortuny, Madrazo , and Benlliure . It was first in Paris, and then in BrusselsBrussels ( French: Bruxelles Dutch: Brussel German: Brussel is a major city in Belgium and its capital. Overview Brussels is first of all a city located in the middle of Belgium and its capital, but it sometimes also refers to the main municipality of the and other continental art centres, that Zuloaga was hailed by the reformers as the regenerator of Spanish national art and as the leader of a school. He is now represented in almost every great continental gallery.
Two of his canvases are at the Luxembourg, one at the Brussels Museum (Avant la Corrida), and one (The Poet Don Miguel) at the Vienna Gallery. The Pau Museum owns an interesting portrait of a lady, the BarcelonaCoat of arms of Barcelona Flag of Barcelona Barcelona within Barcelones Population ( 2003)1,582,738 Area100'4 Km2 Population density ( 2001)15,764/Km2 Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, an autonomous region in northeastern Spain (41º 23' N, 2º 11' E). Municipal Museum the important group Amies, the VeniceVenice ( Italian Venezia German Venedig , the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto, population 271,073 (2001). The city stretches across numerous small islands in a marshy lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater l Gallery, Madame Louise; the BerlinBerlin [ bɛrˈliːn ] is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4. 5 million before World War II. Berlin is located on the rivers Spree and Havel in the northea Gallery, The Topers. Other examples are in the Budapest, Stuttgart, Ghent, Poznan, and New York City galleries and in many important private collections.
Ignacio Zuloaga's work is known for his depictions of traditional Spanish characters, including peasants, gypsies, and bullfighters.
- Modified after a now public domain entry in an encyclopedia from 1911
Zuloaga, Ignacio
Zuloaga, Ignacio
Zuloaga, Ignacio
