Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal academies in the Instituto de España.
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Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
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- Name
- Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
- Founded
- 1752
- Founder
- Ferdinand VI of Spain
- Headquarters
- Palace of Goyeneche
- Part of
- Institute of Spain
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A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal academies in the Instituto de España.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando • Abbreviation — RABASF • Type — Learned society, fine arts academy, art museum • Status — public law corporation • Headquarters — Palacio de Goyeneche (Madrid) • Location — Calle de Alcalá 13, Madrid, Spain • Affiliations — Instituto de España
History
History
The academy was established by royal decree in 1752. About twenty years later, the enlightened monarch Charles III purchased a palace in Madrid as the academy's new home. The building had been designed by José Benito de Churriguera for the Goyeneche family. The king commissioned Diego de Villanueva to convert the building for academic use, employing a neoclassical style in place of Churriguera's baroque design. The academy is also the headquarters of the Madrid Academy of Art.
Notable alumni
Notable alumni
The first graduate of the academy was Bárbara María Hueva. Francisco Goya was once one of the academy's directors. Its alumni include Felip Pedrell, Pablo Picasso, Kiko Argüello, Remedios Varo, Salvador Dalí, Margarita Manso, Antonio López García, Juan Luna, Fernando Amorsolo, Oscar de la Renta, Francesc Daniel Molina i Casamajó, Ricardo Macarrón, Alicia Iturrioz, Fernando Botero, and Melecio Figueroa.
Notable academics
Notable academics
• Mariana de Silva-Bazán y Sarmiento (1739-1784), aristocratic figure, writer, painter, translator • Juan Luis Vassallo, sculptor.
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Spring, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1563) • Illustration — Saint Jerome, El Greco (c. 1605–1610) • Illustration — The Last Supper, copy of Tintoretto by Diego Velázquez (1629?) • Illustration — The Assumption of Mary Magdalene, José de Ribera (1636) • Illustration — Venus, Mercury and Cupid, Louis Michel van Loo (1748) • Illustration — Allegory of Peace and Justice, Corrado Giaquinto (1754) • Illustration — Portrait of the marquesa de Llano, Anton Raphael Mengs (1770) • Illustration — La tirana, Francisco de Goya (c. 1792) • Illustration — Portrait of Isabel II, Federico de Madrazo (1844) • Illustration — Fruit Bowl and Newspaper, Juan Gris (1920)
Identity
Identity
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando is recorded as founded by Ferdinand VI of Spain. Associated with Spain. Recorded from 1752.
Institutional history
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Institutional history
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1752
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando established.
1752
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando is recorded from 1752.
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Collection
Doubling as a museum and gallery, today it houses a fine art collection of paintings from the 15th to 20th centuries: Hans Müelich, Arcimboldo, Giovanni Bellini, Juan de Juanes, Antonio Allegri da Correggio, Luis de Morales, Martin de Vos, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Otto Van Veen, Leandro Bassano, il Cavaliere d'Arpino, Guido Reni, Rubens, Domenichino, Jan Janssens, Giovanni Battista Beinaschi, Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, Daniel Seghers, José de Ribera, Andrea Vaccaro, Jacob Jordaens, Pieter Boel, Claudio Coello, Juan Van der Hamen y León, Van Dyck, Pieter Claesz, Antonio de Pereda, Diego Velázquez, Margherita Caffi, Carreño de Miranda, Paul de Vos, Alonso Cano, Zurbarán, Murillo, Francesco Battaglioli, Jean Ranc, Jacopo Amigoni, Agostino Masucci, Fragonard, Corrado Giaquinto, Domenico Tiepolo, Alessandro Magnasco, Pompeo Battoni, Antonio Joli, Luis Paret y Alcázar, Mengs, Goya, Giuseppe Pirovani (one rare Portrait of George Washington), Joaquín Sorolla, Ignacio Zuloaga, Juan Gris, Pablo Serrano, Fernando Zobel, Lorenzo Quiros, among others.
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Notes from the source article
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- 1.La institución Official website. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- 2.Shearjashub Spooner. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art. A.W. Lovering. 210–211. 1880.
- 3.Government of Spain. Ricardo Macarrón Jaime. Real Academia de la Historia, Spanish Biographical Dictionary.
- 4.Fallece Alicia Iturrioz, la artista a la sombra del retratista de la aristocracia. Naiz: (Bilbao). 2021-09-09.
- 5.Gomadrid.com
- 6.Karaart.com
- 7.Juan Luis Vassallo Parodi Real Academia de la Historia. dbe.rah.es.
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