Artists who flocked to the Prado in Madrid often visited Granada, where the towers of the Alhambra rise to compete with the snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada.
Sorolla
Virtuoso painter who used brushes with long handles to cover huge canvases at great speed. One of three grand masters of modern European art.
Scenes of the Valencian fishing industry, a psychiatrist researching with his microscope, and young boys with disabilities enjoying the sea.
Starting with gentle Impressionism in Paris in the summer of 1885, he quickly became an eloquent Naturalist documenting contemporary Spain.
In the early 20th century, some bathers opted for trunks, a few still bathed naked in seclusion, and modern clothes broke out on occasion.
Coming this New Year are the tercentenary of the birth of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the bicentenary of the birth of Alexandre Cabanel, and the centenary of the untimely death of Joaquín Sorolla.
Full contents for this series, with lists of artists considered in each of its articles, and links to the articles.
In Spain, Sorolla was first Naturalist, then his style loosened to resemble that of Sargent; Zorn in Sweden painted early detailed watercolours before loosening up in oils.
Claude Bernard, whose 1865 book on experimental physiology was popular with Zola and many artists, two scientists who drew the structure of the brain and more.
From linear perspective projection, synthetic pigments like Prussian Blue, and colour theory, to the first new painting medium since oils, science and painting have developed together.
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