Mariano Barbasán Lagueruela (3 February 1864 – 22 July 1924) was a Spanish painter of

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scenes and cityscapes in the Realist style; later influenced by

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Biography

He was born in

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. From 1880 to 1887, he attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in

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). Upon graduating, he moved to

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and became a historical painter; specializing in scenes from the history of Toledo, which he visited frequently.Biographical notes
@ the

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. He also did some scenes from literature and presented his rendering of the Walpurgisnacht of Faust at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. In 1889, thanks to his painting " Joseph Interpreting the Cup-bearer's Dream", he received a stipend from the "" to continue his studies at the Spanish Academy in Rome. While there, he painted mostly landscapes and scenes of rural life. He eventually decided to live there and opened a studio; making occasional trips to Subiaco and

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to paint en plein aire. He held frequent exhibits throughout

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and

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, but not in

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, as a result of which he was little-known in his home country. In 1912, he lived in

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for a short time while overseeing two exhibitions there.Brief biography
@ the Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa. He stayed in

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until 1921, when his health began to worsen. Returning to Spain, he took a chair at the "Academia de Bellas Artes de San Luis" in Zaragoza, which had recently become vacant due to the death of Francisco Pradilla. It was two years later that he held his first retrospective exhibition, at the Central Market in Zaragoza. He died in

, aged 60. In 1925, his son organized a new, more formal exhibition that helped establish his reputation in Spain.

Selected paintings

File:Mariano Barbasán - Paisagem e Camponesas de Antícoli, 1903.JPG, Landscape near Anticoli Corrado File:Mariano Barbasán - Calle en un Pueblo (1909).jpg, Village Street File:El sueño de José, de Mariano Barbasán (Museo de Zaragoza).JPG, Joseph Interpreting
the Cup-bearer's Dream

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Barbasán.
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Biography

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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