Francisco Calvo Serraller (19 April 1948 – 16 November 2018) was a Spanish art historian.

Life

He was born in 1948 in

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Career

Calvo Serraller completed his Doctorate in Philosophy and Literature specializing in History at the

Complutense University The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...

. He was a member of the

Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; ), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the heart of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal acad ...

from 2001 until his death. He was Director of the

Prado Museum The Prado Museum ( ; ), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to house one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the ...

. He was a regular contributor to the newspaper

El País ''El País'' (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. ''El País'' is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El Pa ...

, since its founding in 1976.

Bibliography

Some of his books are: * ''Spain, Half a Century of Avant-Garde Art'' (1985). * ''The Art seen by Artists'' (1987). * ''Vanguard and Tradition in Contemporary Spanish Art'' (1989). * ''The Novel of the Artist'' (1991). * ''Encyclopedia of 20th Century Spanish Art'' (1992). * ''Grandes Maestros de la Pintura, The Greatest Masters of Art and its Paintings'' (1993) (Illustrated by Willi Glasauer). * ''Brief History of the Prado Museum'' (1994). * ''The Romantic Image of Spain: Art and Architecture of the 19th Century'' (1995). * ''El Greco'' (1995). * ''Las Meninas de Velázquez'' (1996). * ''Columnary: Reflections by an Art Critic'' (1998). * ''Freedom of Exhibition: A Different Art History'' (2000). * ''Contemporary Art'' (2001). * ''The Genres of Painting'' (2005).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Calvo Serraller, Francisco Complutense University of Madrid alumni Directors of the Museo del Prado Spanish art historians 1948 births 2018 deaths