Enrique Gomezjurado
Luis Enrique Marcial Gomezjurado Flores (16 January 1891 – 21 September 1978) was an Ecuadorians, Ecuadorian painter, one of the most notable academic artists of the first decades of the 20th century. He specialized in the human figure and excelled in the portrait, also highlighted in Genre painting. Early life He was born in Quito on January 16, 1891. He was the third son of Justo Pastor Gomezjurado y Gomezjurado and Mariana Flores Abarca, conservative landowners, his father from Ibarra, Ecuador, Ibarra and his mother from Ambato, Ecuador, Ambato, settled in Quito in 1880. He studied at the school of De La Salle Brothers, De la Salle Brothers, and there he was student of Miguel Febres Cordero, Brother Miguel. In 1905, when he was 14 years old, he entered the School of Fine Arts of Quito, re-founded in 1904 by the Ecuadorian government, where he was a student of the Spain, Spanish painter León Camarero, among others. As a student at the Fine Arts school of Quito, he obtai ...
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Quito
Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes, at an elevation of , making it the second-highest capital city in the world.Contact Us
" TAME. Retrieved on 14 March 2010. Quito is the political and cultural center of Ecuador as the country's major governmental, administrative, and cultural institutions are located within the city. The majority of transnational companies with a presence in Ecuador are headquartered there. It is also one of the country's two major industrial centers—the port city of