Bernardino Montañés

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Bernardino Montañés
Born(1825-05-20)20 May 1825
Zaragoza, Spain
Died6 January 1893(1893-01-06) (aged 67)
Zaragoza, Spain
EducationReal Academia de Nobles y Bellas Artes de San Luis
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
MovementRomanticism

Bernardino Montañés y Perez (20 May 1825 – 6 January 1893) was an Aragonese painter.

Early life[edit]

Montañés was born in Zaragoza on 20 May 1825.[1]

Career[edit]

Portrait of Ignacio Méndez de Vigo y Valdés Miranda, 1860
Portrait of José Rafael de Silva Fernández de Híjar, 12th Duke of Híjar, between c. 1863 and c. 1870

His began studying art at the School of Fine Arts in Zaragoza and,[2] later, at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. In 1848, the government of Isabella II granted him a scholarship to complete his artistic training in Rome from 1848 to 1852.[3][4] While in Rome, he became friends with fellow artists Felipe Moratilla, Carlos Múgica, Francisco Lameyer, Francisco Jareño, Patricio Patiño and Miguel Floyxench.[5] In the 1850s he traveled to Italy, Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Prussia, Belgium and France.[5] Upon his return to Spain, he became an assistant drawing teacher at the Madrid Academy, until becoming full professor in 1859 and director in 1886.[6] He also served as curator of the Zaragoza Museum for several years.[1]

Artistic style[edit]

Montañés' work has been considered eclectic, combining elements of neoclassicism and rococo. He was highly sought after by Aragonese society and most of his artistic output was portraits and religious paintings.[1]

An important aspect of his work was developed around 1872, when the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar was completed. Montañés was asked to paint some pictures of the main dome, and ended up painting around six. Among these stands out is Coronation of the Virgin.[1]

Today, his work can be found in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and Prado Museum,[5] both in Madrid, and in the collection of the Provincial Deputation of Zaragoza.[7]

Paintings in the Prado Museum[edit]

Personal life[edit]

Montañés died on 6 January 1893.[1][9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Latas, José Antonio Hernández (2002). Bernardino Montañés, 1825-1893: arte y erudición en la Edad de la Inocencia (in Spanish). Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada de Aragón. ISBN 978-84-95306-99-9. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  2. ^ Petisme, María Belén Bueno; Petisme, Ma Belén Bueno (2010). La Escuela de Arte de Zaragoza: la evolución de su programa docente y la situación de la enseñanza oficial del grabado y las artes gráficas (in Spanish). Universidad de Zaragoza. p. 265. ISBN 978-84-92774-93-7. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  3. ^ McGuigan Jr, John F.; Goodyear III, Frank H. (9 August 2022). In Light of Rome: Early Photography in the Capital of the Art World, 1842–1871. Penn State Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-271-09430-4. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  4. ^ Coates, Victoria C. Gardner; Lapatin, Kenneth D. S.; Seydl, Jon L.; Art, Cleveland Museum of; Québec, Musée national des beaux-arts du (2012). The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection. Getty Publications. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-60606-115-2. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  5. ^ a b c "Montañés y Pérez, Bernardino Zaragoza, 20.5.1825 - Zaragoza, 6.1.1893". www.museodelprado.es. Prado Museum. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  6. ^ Historia (Spain), Real Academia de la; Zymla, Herbert González; Sastre, Leticia M. de Frutos; Sánchez, Alfonso E. Pérez (2003). Catálogo de pinturas de la Real Academia de la Historia (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. p. 140. ISBN 978-84-95983-26-8. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Bernardino Montañés | Artists". useum.org. USEUM. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  8. ^ a b Ferreiro, Alberto (11 November 2011). The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia (Update): A Supplemental Bibliography, 2007-2009 (in Spanish). BRILL. p. 382. ISBN 978-90-04-21538-2. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  9. ^ La España moderna: revista ibero-americana (in Spanish). 1897. p. 137. Retrieved 16 May 2024.

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