SCHOOL OF VALENCIA: This school rose contemporary with the Andalusian
school, into which it was finally merged after the importance of Madrid had been
established. It was largely modelled upon Italian painting, as indeed were all
the schools of Spain at the start.
Juan de Joanes (1507?-1579) apparently
was its founder, a man who painted a good portrait, but in other respects was
only a fair imitator of Raphael, whom he had studied at Rome. A stronger man was
Francisco de Ribalta (1550?-1628),
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Caracci, and learned from them free draughtsmanship and elaborate composition.
He was also fond of Sebastiano del Piombo, and in his best works (at Valencia)
reflected him. Ribalta gave an early training to
Ribera(1588-1656), who
was the most important man of this school. In reality Ribera was more Italian
than Valencian,
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called Lo Spagnoletto, and was greatly influenced by Caravaggio. He was a
Spaniard in the horrible subjects that he chose, but in coarse strength of line,
heaviness of shadows, harsh handling of the brush, he was a true Neapolitan Darkling.
A pronounced mannerist he was no less a man of strength, and even in his
shadow-saturated colors a painter with the color instinct. In Italy his
influence in the time of the Decadence was wide-spread, and in Spain his Italian
pupil, Giordano, introduced his methods for late imitation. There were no other
men of much rank in the Valencian school, and, as has been said, the school was
eventually merged in Andalusian painting.
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EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY PAINTING IN SPAIN: Almost directly
after the passing of Velasquez and Murillo Spanish art failed. The
eighteenth-century, as in Italy, was quite barren of any considerable art until
near its close. Then
Goya (1746-1828) seems to have made a partial
restoration of painting. He was a man of peculiarly Spanish turn of mind, fond
of the brutal and the bloody, picturing inquisition scenes, bull-fights, battle
pieces,
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grotesque and horrible, but as a painter his art was based on the natural, and
was exceedingly strong. In brush-work he followed Velasquez; in a peculiar
forcing of contrasts in light and dark he was apparently quite himself, though
possibly influenced by Ribera's work. His best work shows in his portraits and
etchings.
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After Goya's death Spanish art, such as it was, rather followed France, with
the extravagant classicism of David as a model. What was produced may be seen to
this day in the Madrid Museum. It does not call for mention here. About the
beginning of the 1860's Spanish painting made a new advance with
Mariano
Fortuny (1838-1874). In his early years he worked at historical painting,
but later on he went to Algiers and Rome, finding his true vent in a bright
sparkling painting of
genre subjects, oriental scenes, streets,
interiors, single figures, and the like. He excelled in color, sunlight effects,
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brilliant, and in his late pro ductions often spotty from excessive use of points
of light in high color. He was a technician of much brilliancy and originality,
his work exciting great admiration in his day, and leading the younger painters
of Spain into that ornate handling visible in their works at the present time.
Many of these latter,
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adopted French methods, and hardly show such a thing 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 Gérôme. He was a good colorist and an excellent painter of
textures.
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FIG. 73.—MADRAZO, UNMASKED.
The historical scene of Mediæval or Renaissance times, pageants and fêtes
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.
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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. still life oil paintings
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. Tomé 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.; Carreño de
Miranda, Madrid Mus.; Claudio Coello, Escorial, Madrid, Brussels,
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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, Madrid, Seville Mus.
and Cathedral, Berlin, Dresden, Munich; Murillo, best pictures in Madrid
Mus. and Acad. of S. Fernando Madrid, Seville Mus. Hospital and Capuchin Church,
Louvre, Nat. Gal. Lon., Dresden, Munich, Hermitage. large oil paintings on canvas
Valencian School—Juan de Joanes, Madrid Mus.,
Cathedral Valencia, Hermitage; Ribalta, Madrid and Valencian Mus.,
Hermitage; Ribera, Louvre, Nat. Gal. Lon., Dresden, Naples, Hermitage,
and other European museums, chief works at Madrid.
Modern Men and Their Works—Goya, Madrid Mus.,
Acad. of S. Fernando, Valencian Cathedral and Mus., two portraits in Louvre. The
works of the contemporary painters are largely in private hands where reference
to them is of little use to the average student. Thirty Fortunys are in the
collection of William H. Stewart in Paris. His best work, The Spanish Marriage,
belongs to Madame de Cassin, in Paris. Examples of Villegas, Madrazo, Rico,
Domingo, and others, in the Vanderbilt Gallery, Metropolitan Mus., New York;
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