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Academy Of Painting (Santiago, Chile)
Academy of Painting (), also known as the School of Fine Arts of Santiago ( ''de Santiago''), was a Chilean art school, founded on March 17, 1849 in Santiago, Chile. The school produced many works for the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, where it once was located. In 1932, it merged with and is now known as the Department of Visual Arts within the Arts Faculty, University of Chile. History The creation of the Academy of Painting was part of the educational plan of President Manuel Bulnes. The academy was originally located in the building belonging to the San Felipe University, in what is today the Municipal Theatre of Santiago. The school name changed to Escuela de Bellas Artes from 1891 until 1932. Various changes led the academy to merge with the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts () in 1910, and then later to hand its administration over to the University of Chile in 1932. The Academy of Painting would produce the country of Chile's first national artists. Despi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Faculty, University Of Chile
The Arts Faculty, University of Chile (), is an academic discipline within at the University of Chile, which is located in the capital city of Santiago. Within the Arts Faculty the following departments are represented: visual arts, dance, music, sound, theatre, and arts theory; which occupy three buildings on campus. History Founded in 1849 under the leadership of Alejandro Ciccarelli, as the ''School of Fine Arts of Santiago'' (), and later known as the ''Academy of Painting'' (). In 1932, the ''Academy of Painting'' merged with the University of Chile to create the Department of Visual Arts. The Sculpture and Design School was added five years later and the school renamed The Fine Arts School. The Music School at University of Chile was also created in 1849. By 1929 and during a cultural boom both schools, plus the Kinematic School, were merged and became what is today's University of Chile's Arts Faculty. In 1941 The Dance Department was added from which the Chilean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisa Berroeta
Elisa Berroeta Araya was a Chilean 20th-century engraver, illustrator, and visual artist. She is known as one of the first female artists awarded scholarships by the Chilean government for studies in Europe. Biography Elisa Berroeta–Araya was born in the late 19th-century in Ovalle, in Coquimbo, Chile. She studied engraving at the ''Academy of Painting (Santiago, Chile)'' (formerly ''Escuela de Bellas Artes de Santiago'') under French artist León Bazin. In 1905, Berroeta obtained a scholarship granted by the Chilean government to continue her artistic studies in Paris, where she lived and worked for three years. In that same year 1905, Chilean ''Zig Zag'' magazine named Berroeta, "a national artist (of Chile)" for her representation of her country abroad. From roughly the 1880s to 1920s, it was common for wood engravings to be used for fine-art reproduction and for illustration. In France she created many wood engraving Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Schools In Chile
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Academy Of Painting (Santiago, Chile)
Academy of Painting (), also known as the School of Fine Arts of Santiago ( ''de Santiago''), was a Chilean art school, founded on March 17, 1849 in Santiago, Chile. The school produced many works for the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, where it once was located. In 1932, it merged with and is now known as the Department of Visual Arts within the Arts Faculty, University of Chile. History The creation of the Academy of Painting was part of the educational plan of President Manuel Bulnes. The academy was originally located in the building belonging to the San Felipe University, in what is today the Municipal Theatre of Santiago. The school name changed to Escuela de Bellas Artes from 1891 until 1932. Various changes led the academy to merge with the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts () in 1910, and then later to hand its administration over to the University of Chile in 1932. The Academy of Painting would produce the country of Chile's first national artists. Despi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilean Art
Chilean art refers to all kinds of visual art developed in Chile, or by Chileans, from the arrival of the Spanish conquerors to the modern day. It also includes the native pre-Columbian pictorial expression on modern Chilean territory. Pre-Columbian art Prehistoric painting in Chile, also called pre-Columbian Chilean painting, refers to any type of painting or painting technique used to represent objects or people during the period before the Spanish conquest. Developed prior to the existence of written sources, study of this period is based on the material remains and vestiges of the cultures that developed. The beginning of pre-Columbian art in Chile coincided with the appearance of indigenous cultures in the territory, and ended around the start of the Spanish conquest of Chile around 1500AD. After this period, indigenous art was virtually eliminated by the Catholic community as part of the process of converting native people. (see also: Catholic Church and the Age of Disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Álvarez De Sotomayor Y Zaragoza
Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza (September 25, 1875 – March 17, 1960) was a Galician (Spanish) painter. Biography Álvarez de Sotomayor was born in Ferrol. He studied at the Colegio Mª Cristina in El Escorial and at the age of 10 years was the only person to draw a portrait of King Alfonso XII in his death bed (the drawing still belongs to the painter's family) and participated in courses of philosophy and literature in Madrid. In 1899 he achieved a scholarship to continue his studies in Rome, where he lived for four years. Before his return to Spain in 1904, he visited France, Belgium and the Netherlands. He married Pilar de Castro. They had seven children. Around 1910 he moved to Chile, where he held the chair of coloration and composition at the Academy of Painting (Santiago, Chile) and later became its Director. In 1915, the family returned to Spain. Back in Madrid, he was nominated court painter of Alfonso XIII. In 1922 he became director of the Museo del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Arias
Virginio Arias Cruz (8 December 1855, Ránquil Ránquil is a Chilean commune in Itata Province, Ñuble Region. The communal capital is the town of Ránquil. Demographics According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute Ránquil had 5,683 inhabitants (2,896 men and 2,787 wom ... - 17 January 1941, Santiago de Chile) was a Chilean sculptor and art teacher. Life and work He was born to a humble family, and originally worked in the fields. His artistic education began in Concepción (Chile), Concepción, at the age of twelve, when he took lessons from a sculptor named Tomás Chávez. When he was nineteen, he became one of the most outstanding students of , who took him to Paris in 1875. The following year, he enrolled at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with François Jouffroy, Alexandre Falguière and Jean-Paul Laurens. He remained in Paris until 1890. While he was there, he created several works inspired by news bulletins comi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosme San Martín
Cosme San Martín Lagunas (27 September 1849/1850, Valparaíso – 1 April 1906, Santiago) was a Chilean painter and the first Chilean-born Director of the Academy of Painting (Santiago, Chile).Biographical notes @ Artistas Plásticos Chilenos. Biography His father was a musician. In 1864, he went to Santiago to study at the Academia. His teachers included the school's Director, and Juan Mochi, who had a great influence on his style. Four years later, no older than nineteen, San Martín was named a Professor of drawing at the Academy.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Mochi
Juan Mochi or, in Italian, Giovanni Mochi (1831, in Florence – 1892, in Santiago) was an Italian painter who spent sixteen years as a Professor in Chile and influenced the artists who came to be known as the Great Chilean Masters. Biography He began his artistic studies in his hometown and set up a studio there, achieving some local fame doing paintings in Greco-Roman and Renaissance style. Later, he moved to Rome, where he came to know the Chilean politician, , who would play a decisive role in his career. Gallo took some of Mochi's paintings to Chile and, when Mochi moved to Paris after the Franco-Prussian War, introduced him to a circle of notable people from Chile.Brief Biography @ MCN Biografías. Later, Mochi would be recommended as a replacement for [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Kirchbach
Ernst Sigismund Kirchbach, or Ernesto Kirchbach (23 April 1831, Meißen - 16 August 1876, Dresden) was a German history and portrait painter, who served as Director of the Academy of Painting (Santiago, Chile). Biography He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, a painter of Biblical subjects. His first major work involved decorative paintings in the Rubens Hall at the Academy, done together with Carolsfeld. After the failure of the German revolutions of 1848–1849, he went into exile in London. There, he had his own workshop for five years; creating decorative works at what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum. He married one of his fellow exiles; Emma Schmitthenner-Stockhausen, a teacher from Rheinland. They had two sons; Wolfgang Kirchbach, Ernst Wolfgang, who became a writer, and Frank Kirchbach, Johann Frank, who followed in his father's footsteps as an artist. As soon as they could, they returned to Germany and settled in Dresd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Ciccarelli
Alejandro Ciccarelli Manzoni, originally Alessandro Ciccarelli (25 January 1811, Naples - 5 May 1879, Santiago) was an Italian-born Chilean painter and educator. He was the first Director of the Academy of Painting in Santiago, Chile. Biography He began his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, and completed them in Rome, where he came under the influence of the Neoclassical painter Vincenzo Camuccini. In 1843, he was introduced to Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, who hired him as a court painter and Master of Painting for the Empress consort, Teresa Cristina. At the age of thirty-three, he became the leading artist in Brazil and was charged with reorganizing the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Río de Janeiro. Six years later, in 1849, the Chilean Consul in Brazil, Carlos Hochkolf, invited him to come to Chile and help establish an art academy there. He accepted the offer and was instrumental in creating the Academy of Painting (Santiago, Chile). He served as dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Antonio Caro
Manuel Antonio Caro Olavarría (born Manuel Antonio Caro Olavarría) (June 3, 1835 – July 14, 1903) was a Chilean painterManuel Antonio Caro portaldearte.cl. Accessed 2012-12-22. (in Spanish) (Googl and is classed among Chile's best-loved artists. Relics and Selves, , London, bbk.ac.uk. Accessed 2012-12-22. The son of Victorino Caro y Cárcamo and Asunción de Olavarr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
