Elías Tormo y Monzó (1869–1957) was a Spanish art historian.
Life
Tormo was born in
Albaida (
Valencia
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), on 23 June 1869.
He studied Law in Valencia and Arts in Madrid, becoming a professor at the
University of Santiago de Compostela
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. In 1903 he moved to Universidad Central (now
Complutense University of Madrid
The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...
) to take up the first professorship in Art History ever to be established in Spain. He eventually became rector of the university.
Together with
Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez
Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez (21 February 1870 in Granada, Spain – 7 June 1970 in Madrid, Spain), was a Spanish archaeologist and historian.
Biography
Martinez was born 21 February 1870 in Granada, Spain. He is the son of noted pain ...
he founded the journal ''
Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología''.
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He was a member of the ]Real Academia de la Historia
The Royal Academy of History (, RAH) is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the different branches of life, of c ...
and of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; ), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the centre of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal aca ...
.[ He also served in public office as a parliamentarian (1903-5, 1907-23, 1927-30, 1949-52), and as ]Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts Ministry of Public Instruction and the leadership post Minister of Public Instruction may refer to historical names of the following government bodies:
* Ministry of National Education (France)
* Ministry of Public Education (Italy)
** Minister of ...
(1930-31).[
In 1924 ]Alfonso XIII
Alfonso XIII (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; French language, French: ''Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon''; 17 May ...
did away with the distinction between state and personal arms by combining the two. Elías Tormo was the author of the reform, he took the arms of Charles III, substituted the Aragon quarter with Jerusalem, and replaced the escutcheon with the state arms.
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Works
* ''Jacomart y el arte hispano-flamenco cuatrocentista'' (Madrid, 1913)
* ''Las Viejas series icónicas de los reyes de España'' (Madrid, 1916)
* with Francisco Javier Sánchez Cantón, ''Los Tapices de la Casa del Rey'' (Madrid, 1919)
* ''Levante'' (Madrid, 1923)
* ''Monumentos de Españoles en Roma, y de Portugueses e Hispano-Americanos'' (Madrid, 1942)
* ''Las Murallas y las torres, los portales y el Alcazar del Madrid de la Reconquista, creación del Califato'' (Madrid, 1945)
* with Francisco Javier Sánchez Cantón, ''Pintura, escultura y arquitectura en España'' (Madrid, 1949)
References
External links
Works by Elias Tormo
available from Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
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.
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1869 births
1957 deaths
Spanish art historians
20th-century Spanish politicians
Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid