Asterio Mañanós Martínez (21 October 1861 – ) was a Spanish painter who specialized in portraits and Costumbrista. He was also the curator for the historical artworks preserved in the

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He was born in Palencia, where he began his studies at the Escuela Municipal de Dibujo de Palencia. In 1877, he continued at the

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in Madrid, where he studied with

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and José Casado del Alisal.Brief biography
@ the Museo del Prado website. He also made frequent visits to the

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and made copies of

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. In 1881, he had his first showing at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. He then divided his time between Madrid and Palencia, where he painted the curtains and backdrops for the "Teatro de Recreo Palentino". In 1885, he received a fellowship from the Provincial government of Palencia to further his education at the

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for a period of one year.Brief biography
@ MCN Biografías. Upon his return, he and another local artist were commissioned to decorate the "Teatro de la Peña Palentina". Also, he entered into a partnership to open a school of drawing named after his former teacher, Casado del Alisal. Despite this new commitment, he moved to Paris in 1889 to study

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with

Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Ma ...

. He stayed for a year, then returned to Spain and set up a studio in Madrid. In 1908, following some restorations he had done for the Spanish Senate, a committee named him the curator of its art collection. He created some of his best-known works as a result of this relationship: large canvases portraying the Senate in session. One of his final paintings was an allegory on the Second Republic. He was last heard from in 1935. The exact date, whereabouts and circumstances of his death are unknown. Speculation has centered on events related to the Spanish Civil War.

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Joaquín Sorolla (blog)
Portrait of Asterio Mañanós Martínez.

-''Salón de Conferencias del Senado en 1904''.

-''El acta de la anterior: Salón de Sesiones del Senado, en 1906''.

-''Salón de la presidencia del Senado, en octubre de 1915''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mananos Martinez, Asterio 1861 births 1930s deaths People from Palencia 19th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters 20th-century Spanish painters 20th-century Spanish male artists Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando alumni 19th-century Spanish male artists

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