as Spanish nationality.
Fortuny's brother-in-law, Madrazo (1841-), is an example of a Spanish
painter turned French in his methods--a facile and brilliant
portrait-painter. Zamacois (1842-1871) died early, but with a
reputation as a successful portrayer of seventeenth-century subjects a
little after the style of Meissonier and not unlike Gerome. He was a
good colorist and an excellent painter of textures.
[Illustration: FIG. 73.--MADRAZO, UNMASKED.]
The historical scene of Mediaeval or Renaissance times, pageants and
fetes with rich costume, fine architecture and vivid effects of color,
are characteristic of a number of the modern Spaniards--Villegas,
Pradilla, Alvarez. As a general thing their canvases are a little
flashy, likely to please at first sight but grow wearisome after a
time. Palmaroli has a style that resembles a mixture of Fortuny and
Meissonier; and some other painters, like Luis Jiminez Aranda,
Sorolla, Zuloaga, Anglada, Garcia y Remos, Vierge, Roman Ribera, and
Domingo, have done excellent work. In landscape and Venetian scenes
Rico leads among the Spaniards with a vivacity and brightness not
always seen to good advantage in his late canvases.
PRINCIPAL WORKS: Generally speaking, Spanish art cannot be
seen to advantage outside of Spain. Both its ancient and
modern masterpieces are at Madrid, Seville, Toledo, and
elsewhere. The Royal Gallery at Madrid has the most and the
best examples.
CASTILIAN SCHOOL--Rincon, altar-piece church of Robleda de
Chavilla; Berruguete, altar-pieces Saragossa, Valladolid,
Madrid, Toledo; Morales, Madrid and Louvre; Sanchez-Coello,
Madrid and Brussels Mus.; Navarette, Escorial, Madrid, St.
Petersburg; Theotocopuli, Cathedral and S. Tome Toledo,
Madrid Mus.; Velasquez, best works in Madrid Mus., Escorial,
Salamanca, Montpensier Gals., Nat. Gal. Lon., Infanta
Marguerita Louvre, Borro portrait (?) Berlin, Innocent X.
Doria Rome; Mazo, landscapes Madrid Mus.; Carreno de
Miranda, Madrid Mus.; Claudio Coello, Escorial, Madrid,
Brussels, Berlin, and Munich Mus.
ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL--Vargas, Seville Cathedral; Cespedes,
Cordova Cathedral; Roelas, S. Isidore Cathedral, Museum
Seville; Pacheco, Madrid Mus.; Herrera, Seville Cathedral
and Mus. and Archbishop's Palace, Dresden Mus.; Zurbaran,
Seville Cathedral and Mus. Madrid, Dresden, Louvre, Nat.
Gal. Lon.; Cano, Madr
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