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Marisa Roësset Velasco
Marisa Roësset Velasco (née Marisa Luisa Roësset y Velasco; March 6, 1904 – November 18, 1976) was a Spanish figurative painter, and teacher. She worked on portraits, genre scenes, and religious scenes; and founded a painting school in Madrid that operated for 30 years. Life and career Marisa Roësset Velasco was born on March 6, 1904, in Madrid, to father Eugenio Julio Roësset Mosquera. She was born into a wealthy Madrid family of artists and writers. Her aunt was painter María Roësset Mosquera, whom she studied painting under in early life. Roësset Velasco attended Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, and studied under teachers Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza, Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, and . She attended art school classes alongside Salvador Dalí, and Victorina Durán. She became known as a painter through her exhibitions at the , despite not holding a membership. In the 1930s, Roësset Velasco opened a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its wikt:monocentric, monocentric Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area is the List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, second-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the Manzanares (river), River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding Community of Madrid, autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
