Luis Paret y Alcázar (11 February 1746 – 14 February 1799) was a Spanish painter of the late-
Baroque or
Rococo
Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...
period.
Biography
He was born in
Madrid
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he first trained with
Antonio González Velázquez and attended the
Academia Real de San Fernando in Madrid, where he won a second prize in a painting contest in 1760, and first prize in 1766. He entered the studio of the French painter
Charles de la Traverse, who worked for the Marchese of Ossun, the ambassador of France in Spain. Unfortunately upon returning to Madrid, despite becoming a teacher in the
Academia de San Fernando at age 33 years, he mainly received royal commissions to paint and engrave vistas of ports, the Spanish equivalent of
vedute
A ''veduta'' (Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''.
Origins
This genre ...
, and also of planned works of construction. For some years, he was banished to
Puerto Rico
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, where he trained the painter
Jose Campeche
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*Jose ben Abin
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. He also painted flowers in
still life and
genre paintings
Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached ...
called ''bambochadas'' for their focus on the customs of the underclasses.
Gallery
Luis Paret y Alcázar - The Shop - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Shop of anticuarian Geniani'' (1772)
Museo Lázaro Galdiano
La carta (Luis Paret).jpg, ''La carta'' (1772)
particular collection
Luis Paret y Alcázar - La Puerta del Sol en Madrid.jpg, ''The Puerta del Sol in Madrid'' (1773)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba
Carlos III comiendo ante su corte.jpg, ''Charles III Dining before the Court'' (c. 1775)
Museo del Prado
Luis Paret - View of El Arenal in Bilbao - Google Art Project.jpg, View of El Arenal in Bilbao
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(1783-84)
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
Jura de Fernando VII como Príncipe de Asturias.jpg, ''Jura de Fernando VII como Príncipe de Asturias'' (1791)
Museo del Prado
References
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Scholarly articlesabout Luis Paret y Alcázar both in web an
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Spanish Old Masters Gallery
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1746 births
1799 deaths
Artists from Madrid
18th-century Spanish painters
18th-century Spanish male artists
Spanish male painters
Spanish Baroque painters
Spanish genre painters