Vicente Palmaroli
Vicente Palmaroli González (5 September 1834 – 25 January 1896) was a Spanish portrait and genre painter.
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Vicente Palmaroli

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- Name
- Vicente Palmaroli
- Born
- 5 September 1834
- Birthplace
- Zarzalejo, Spain
- Died
- 25 January 1896
- Place of death
- Madrid, Spain
- Education
- Rome
- Known for
- Painter
- Movement
- Orientalist
- Full name
- Vicente Palmaroli González.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Fields
- portrait
- Movements
- Orientalism
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Vicente Palmaroli González (5 September 1834 – 25 January 1896) was a Spanish portrait and genre painter.
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Biography
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Vicente Palmaroli studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. José Alcázar Tejedor is recorded as having studied under Vicente Palmaroli. The recorded working language is Spanish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Positions recorded include director of Museo del Prado. Works named in the authority record are El sermón de la capilla Sixtina. Work by Vicente Palmaroli is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Hermitage Museum, Carmen Thyssen Museum and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Palacio Real de Riofrío. Los santos patronos de España, de los reyes y del pontífice Pío IX, Vicente Palmaroli González (1862), pinta a Santa Isabel, Santiago, San Pío V y San Francisco ante San Ildefonso, con motivo del nacimiento (1857) de Alfonso de Borbón.
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Neapolitan peasant woman (c.1862), by Vicente Palmaroli
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Vicente Palmaroli • Born — 5 September 1834 • Birthplace — Zarzalejo, Spain • Died — 25 January 1896 • Place of death — Madrid, Spain • Education — Rome • Known for — Painter • Movement — Orientalist • Illustration — The Haircut (date unknown) • Illustration — Lovesick (date unknown)
Biography
Biography
He was born in Zarzalejo, the son of Gaetano Palmaroli, an Italian painter and lithographer, who was his first teacher. After his father's death in 1853, he took over his official position at the royal art collections. He requested leave in 1857 to go to Rome and complete his education, using some surplus money from the collection fund. While there, he joined a group of Spanish painters who met at the Antico Caffè Greco, including Luis Álvarez Catalá, Dióscoro Puebla, José Casado del Alisal, Eduardo Rosales, Benet Mercadé, Marià Fortuny and Alejo Vera. He participated in the National Exhibition in 1862 with two works he created in Italy, winning a First-Class Medal. The following year, he returned to Italy and remained until 1866. After his return to the Court, he won a Gold Medal at the National Exhibition of 1867. That same year, he accompanied the Spanish delegation to the Exposition Universelle in Paris. While there, he met Ernest Meissonier, who would have an influence on his later work. Over the next few years, he would become a renowned portrait painter. In 1872, he was named a Professor at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. A year later, he settled in Paris and specialized in creating "tableautins"; small format paintings on amusing or pleasant themes designed to be hung in the home. In 1883, he moved to Rome to become Director of the Academia Española de Bellas Artes de Roma. He returned to Madrid in 1894 when he was appointed Director of the Museo del Prado, a position he would hold until his death. Following a Royal directive, he set up a commission (consisting of himself, the Secretary and the museum's curators) to examine donated works and decide whether to accept or reject them, pursuant to maintaining the quality of the collection. He also oversaw maintenance, which included replacing the wooden roofs with metallic ones. A planned heating system was cancelled due to lack of funds. To help prevent fires, the employee's living quarters were moved to a new extension, built under the direction of architect Fernando Arbós y Tremanti. Most of the works added to the Prado during his tenure were later moved to the collection at the new Museo de Arte Moderno. He suffered a stroke while attending a theatrical performance, became an invalid, and died several months later in Madrid, aged 61.
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