Joaquín Martínez De La Vega
Joaquín Martínez de la Vega Cisneros, usually cited as Joaquín Martínez de la Vega (Spanish: [xoa'kin mar'tineθ de la 'βega]; 23 June 1846 - 4 December 1905), was a Spanish painter and illustrator. Although he was born in Almería and studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Royal San Fernando Academy in Madrid, he is considered a member of the Málaga School of Painting. A dandyish, dissolute and often transgressive individual, Martínez de la Vega clashed, both personally and artistically, with traditionalist Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes, Bernardo Ferrándiz, founder of the Málaga School; on the other hand, he sympathized with young Pablo Picasso, Picasso and was a lifelong friend of José Denis Belgrano, José Denis. His work, especially in the late part of his career, is considered the closest to modernity within the aforementioned painting school, approaching cultural ''fin-de-siècle'' European tendencies like Symbolism (arts), symbolism, Post- ...
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Almería
Almería (, , ) is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. It lies on southeastern Iberia on the Mediterranean Sea. Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. The city grew wealthy during the Islamic era, becoming a world city throughout the 11th and 12th centuries. It enjoyed an active port that traded silk, oil and raisins. Etymology The name "Almería" comes from the city's former Arabic name, ''Madīnat al-Mariyya'', meaning "city of the watchtower". As the settlement was originally port or coastal suburb of Pechina, it was initially known as ''Mariyyat al-Bajjāna'' (''Bajjāna'' being the Arabic name for Pechina). History The origin of Almería is connected to the 9th-century establishment of the so-called Republic of Pechina (Bajjana) some kilometres to the north, which was for a time autonomous from the Cordobese central authority: the settlement of current-day Almería initially developed as ...
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