Enrique Simonet Lombardo (February 2, 1866 – April 20, 1927) was a Spanish

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Early life

Simonet was born in

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. His first vocation of childhood was religious studies, but he abandoned it to devote himself to painting. Despite being Valencian and studying at the Saint Charles Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Valencia, he joined a circle of artists in the city of

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. He also attended the workshop of

Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes (21 July 1835 – 3 May 1885) was a Spanish costumbrista painter. He is considered to be one of the founders of the "". Biography He was born in Valencia, the son of a fisherman in the port district known as " ...

, forming part of the Malaga school of painting.

Work and travel

In 1887 obtained a grant to study painting in the Fine Arts Academy in

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, where he painted in 1890 ''Heart's Anatomy''; a painting that would bring him international recognition and which won him several prizes. Taking advantage of his stay Simonet traveled throughout Italy, visited Paris several times and in 1890 he made a tour of the Mediterranean. He also traveled to the

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, where he painted his monumental work '; work for which he received numerous medals including

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in 1892,

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in 1893,

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in 1896 and

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in 1900. In 1893 and 1894 Simonet traveled to

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as a war correspondent for the magazine '' La Ilustración Española y Americana''.

Teaching

In 1901 he became professor of Studies and Forms of Nature and Art, at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. In 1911 he became a member of the

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in Madrid. Between 1921 and 1922 he was director of the Private Paular for landscapers.

Death and legacy

Simonet died on April 20, 1927. He has paintings at

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and

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. His painting ''The Beheading of Saint Paul'' is in a preferred place at the Malaga Cathedral. Since he was also devoted to decorative painting and landscape, among his surviving works which stand out are the four large canvases on ''Allegories of Law'' in the Palace of Justice in Barcelona and ''Allegories of the Eight Provinces'' in the Palace of Justice in Madrid.

Paintings

File:Decapitación de San Pablo - Simonet - 1887.jpg, ''The Beheading of Saint Paul''. 400 x 700 cm 1887 (

Málaga Cathedral The Cathedral of Málaga is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Málaga in Andalusia in southern Spain. It is in the Renaissance architectural tradition. The cathedral is located within the limits defined by a now missing portion of the medieva ...

) File:Enrique Simonet - La autopsia - 1890.jpg, ''Anatomy of the heart''. (Tenia corazon) 177 x 291 cm 1890 (

) File:Enrique Simonet - Flevit super illam 1892.jpg, '' Flevit super illam''
(''He wept over it''). 305 x 555 cm 1892 (

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 th ...

) File:Enrique Simonet - El Quite - 1897.jpg, ''El Quite''. 269 x 483 cm 1897 (

) File:Enrique Simonet - El Juicio de Paris 1904.jpg, ''

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''. 215 x 331 cm 1904 (

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References

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About ''Anatomy of the heart''
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