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  2. Spanish art - Wikipedia

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    Brown, Jonathan, Painting in Spain, 1500-1700 (Pelican History of Art), Yale University Press, 1998, ISBN 0300064748; Dodds, Jerrilynn D. (ed.) Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain. New York 1992. Gardner's: Art Through The Ages - International Edition, Brace Harcourt Jovanovich, 9th Edn. 1991; Gudiol, José, The Arts of Spain, 1964, Thames and ...

  3. Guernica (Picasso) - Wikipedia

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    Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. [1] [2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. [3] It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. [4]

  4. Luis Egidio Meléndez - Wikipedia

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    Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716–1780) was a Spanish painter. Though he received little acclaim during his lifetime and died in poverty, Meléndez is recognized as the greatest Spanish still-life painter of the 18th century. His mastery of composition and light, and remarkable ability to convey the volume and texture of individual objects enabled ...

  5. The Third of May 1808 - Wikipedia

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    Commonly known as The Third of May 1808.) [1] is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. In the work, Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon 's armies during the occupation of 1808 in the Peninsular War .

  6. Las Meninas - Wikipedia

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    Las Meninas has long been recognised as one of the most important paintings in the history of Western art. The Baroque painter Luca Giordano said that it represents the "theology of painting", and in 1827 the president of the Royal Academy of Arts Sir Thomas Lawrence described the work in a letter to his successor David Wilkie as "the true ...

  7. Pedro Berruguete - Wikipedia

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    Possible self-portrait. Pedro Berruguete (c. 1450 – 1504) was a Spanish painter whose art is regarded as a transitional style between Gothic and Renaissance art.Berruguete most famously created paintings of the first few years of the Inquisition and of religious imagery for Castilian retablos.

  8. Museo del Prado - Wikipedia

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    During the Spanish Civil War, upon the recommendation of the League of Nations, the museum staff removed 353 paintings, 168 drawings and the Dauphin's Treasure and sent the art to Valencia, then later to Girona, and finally to Geneva. The art had to be returned across French territory in night trains to the museum upon the commencement of World ...

  9. Francisco Pacheco - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Francisco Pacheco (1622) by Diego Velázquez Francisco Pacheco, Lo Judici Final ("The Last Judgment"), Musée Goya, Castres, France.. Francisco Pérez del Río (bap. 3 November 1564 – 27 November 1644), known by his pseudonym Francisco Pacheco, was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher of Alonso Cano and Diego Velázquez, as well as the latter's father-in-law.