The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; ), located on the
Calle de Alcalá in the heart of
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), an ...
, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal academies in the .
History
The academy was established by
royal decree in 1752. About twenty years later, the
enlightened monarch Charles III
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales and, at age 73, became the oldest person to ...
purchased a palace in Madrid as the academy's new home. The building had been designed by
José Benito de Churriguera for the Goyeneche family. The king commissioned Diego de Villanueva to convert the building for academic use, employing a
neoclassical style in place of Churriguera's
baroque design.
The academy is also the headquarters of the Madrid Academy of Art.
Notable alumni
The first graduate of the academy was
Bárbara María Hueva.
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 174616 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and e ...
was once one of the academy's directors. Its alumni include
Felip Pedrell,
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is ...
,
Kiko Argüello
Francisco José Gómez de Argüello y Wirtz (born January 9, 1939) is a Spanish artist and, together with Carmen Hernández, co-initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way.
Early life
Argüello was born in León, he studied fine arts at the Royal A ...
,
Remedios Varo,
Salvador Dalí
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,
Antonio López García,
Juan Luna,
Fernando Amorsolo,
Oscar de la Renta,
Ricardo Macarrón,
,
and
Fernando Botero.
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Collection
Doubling as a museum and gallery, today it houses a fine art collection of paintings from the 15th to 20th centuries: Hans Müelich
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, Arcimboldo, Giovanni Bellini, Juan de Juanes, Antonio Allegri da Correggio, Luis de Morales, Martin de Vos, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Otto Van Veen, Leandro Bassano, il Cavaliere d'Arpino, Guido Reni, Rubens, Domenichino, Jan Janssens, Giovanni Battista Beinaschi, Bartolomeo Cavarozzi
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587–1625),Francucci, Massimo (2012). "Biographies of Artists", 356 p. In Rossella Vodret (ed.) Caravaggio's Rome: 1600-1630. Vol-II. Skira Editore S.p.A., Milan. 854 pp. occasionally referred to as Bartolomeo Crescenzi, ...
, Daniel Seghers, José de Ribera, Andrea Vaccaro, Jacob Jordaens, Pieter Boel, Claudio Coello
Claudio Coello (2 March 1642 – 20 April 1693) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Coello is considered the last great Spanish painter of the 17th century.
The son of Faustino Coello, a famous Portuguese sculptor, he was a court painter for Char ...
, Juan Van der Hamen y León, Van Dyck, Pieter Claesz, Antonio de Pereda, Diego Velázquez, Margherita Caffi, Carreño de Miranda, Paul de Vos, Alonso Cano, Zurbarán, Murillo, Francesco Battaglioli, Jean Ranc, Jacopo Amigoni, Agostino Masucci, Fragonard, Corrado Giaquinto, Domenico Tiepolo, Alessandro Magnasco, Pompeo Battoni, Antonio Joli
Antonio Francesco Lodovico Joli (13 March 1700 – 29 April 1777) was an Italian painter of ''vedute'' and ''capricci''.
Biography
Born in Modena, he first was apprenticed to Rafaello Rinaldi. He then studied in Rome under Giovanni Paolo P ...
, Luis Paret y Alcázar, Mengs, Goya, Giuseppe Pirovani
Giuseppe Pirovani (c. 1755-c. 1835) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, mainly active in Brescia.
Born in Pavia
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(one rare ''Portrait of George Washington''), Joaquín Sorolla, Ignacio Zuloaga, Juan Gris, Pablo Serrano
Pablo Serrano Aguilar, (8 March 1908, Crivillén, Teruel – 26 November 1985, Madrid) was a Spanish abstract sculptor.
Personal life
1920–1925. Pablo Serrano studied as a boarder in the Escuelas Profesionales Salesianas in Sarriá (Barcel ...
, Fernando Zobel, Lorenzo Quiros, among others.
Gallery
File:Giuseppe Arcimboldo - La Primavera - Google Art Project.jpg, ''La primavera'', Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1563)
File:El Greco - San Jerónimo - Google Art Project.jpg, ''San Jerónimo'', El Greco ()
File:VelazquezUltimaCena.jpg, ''La Última Cena'', copy of Tintoretto by Diego Velázquez (1629?)
File:José de Ribera - Asunción de la Magdalena - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Asunción de la Magdalena'', José de Ribera (1636)
File:Louis Michel van Loo - Venus, Mercurio y el Amor - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Venus, Mercurio y el Amor'', Louis Michel van Loo (1748)
File:Alegoría de la Paz y la Justicia.jpg, ''Alegoría de la Paz y la Justicia'', Corrado Giaquinto (1754)
File:Anton Rafael Mengs - Retrato de la marquesa de Llano - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Retrato de la marquesa de Llano'', Anton Raphael Mengs (1770)
File:Francisco de Goya - La Tirana - Google Art Project.jpg, '' La tirana'', Francisco de Goya ()
File:Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz - Retrato de Isabel II - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Retrato de Isabel II'', Federico de Madrazo (1844)
File:Juan Gris - Frutero y periódico - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Frutero y periódico'', Juan Gris (1920)
References
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External links
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Collections of the RABASF
Android and iOS Official mobile appVirtual tour of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
provided by Google Arts & Culture
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