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    The Madrid Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter active during the late period of the style, around 520 BC. He was active during the time when...
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    Madrid (/məˈdrɪd/ mə-DRID, Spanish: [maˈðɾið] ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan...
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    Juan Delgado (c. 1675–1731) was a Spanish Baroque painter active in Madrid. Son of painter Juan Felipe Delgado and Isabel Durán, his marriage to María...
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    Velázquez y Pacheco (1619–1658), married painter Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo at the Church of Santiago in Madrid on 21 August 1633. The younger, Ignacia...
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    Joaquín Sorolla (category 19th-century Spanish painters)
    Sorolla: Pittore di luce (painter of light). Joaquín Sorolla García vestido de blanco, 1896. Sorolla Museum, Madrid. The painter's son, "dressed in white"...
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    Juan de Pareja (category 17th-century Spanish painters)
    Archivio di Stato in Rome. From then on until his death in Madrid he worked as an independent painter, demonstrating knowledge acquired in Velazquez's workshop...
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    Francisco Goya (category Burials in Madrid)
    y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773. Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in...
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    The Spoliarium is a painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna. Luna, working on canvas, spent eight months completing the painting which depicts dying gladiators...
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    Villegas Cordero (26 August 1844, Seville – 9 November 1921, Madrid) was a Spanish painter of historical, genre and costumbrista scenes. His father ran...
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    Anton Raphael Mengs (category German male painters)
    Raphael Mengs (12 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German painter, active in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th...
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  • This article is a list of notable people from Madrid, the capital of Spain: Teodoro Ardemans (1664–1726): Spanish architect José Benito de Churriguera...
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    Claudio Coello (category Painters from Madrid)
    Portuguese sculptor, he was a court painter for Charles II. He worked on many churches and public buildings in Madrid, with his most famous work being in...
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    Royal Palace of Madrid (Spanish: Palacio Real de Madrid) is the official residence of the Spanish royal family at the city of Madrid, although now used...
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    Manuel de la Cruz (1750–1792) was a Spanish painter. He was born and died in Madrid. He distinguished himself by his pictures in the cathedral of Carthagena...
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    Juan Luna (category 19th-century Filipino painters)
    winning of the gold medal in the 1884 Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts, along with the silver win of fellow Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, prompted...
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    Francisco de Zurbarán (category Spanish Baroque painters)
    Museo del Prado, Madrid Saint Luke as a Painter before Christ on the Cross, c. 1635–1640, Museo del Prado, Madrid The Annunciation, 1637–1639, Museum of...
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    Vicente López Portaña (category 18th-century Spanish painters)
    Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. For the following three years in Madrid, he apprenticed with the Valencian painter, Mariano Salvador Maella. Vicente...
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    the poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (see above) and painter Valeriano Bécquer (1833–70), who moved to Madrid. Domínguez Bécquer's influence came as an art teacher...
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    is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. In the work, Goya sought to commemorate Spanish...
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    Alonso Sánchez Coello (category Painters from the Valencian Community)
    became a painter. She studied and helped in her father's workshop. The painter moved with the court to Toledo and finally settled in Madrid in 1561. Coello...
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    Luis Egidio Meléndez (category 18th-century Spanish painters)
    Meléndez's father, a miniaturist painter from Oviedo, had moved to Madrid with his older brother, the portrait painter Miguel Jacinto Meléndez (1679–1734)...
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    Mariana de Silva-Bazán y Sarmiento (category Writers from Madrid)
    Sarmiento de Sotomayor, (Madrid, 14 October 1739 - Madrid, 17 January 1784), was an 18th-century Spanish aristocrat, writer, painter, and translator. She...
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    Buen Retiro Park or simply El Retiro, is one of the largest city parks in Madrid, Spain. The park belonged to the Spanish monarchy until 1868, when it became...
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    Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (category 17th-century Spanish painters)
    the famous painter's only surviving daughter, Francisca de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco, on August 21, 1633, at the Church of Santiago in Madrid. Philip IV...
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    José Alcázar Tejedor (category Artists from Madrid)
    José Alcázar Tejedor (1850, Madrid - 1907, Madrid) was a Spanish painter of genre scenes; mostly of a religious nature. Thanks to a stipend from the Diputación...
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    El 2 de mayo de 1808 en Madrid, La lucha con los mamelucos or La carga de los mamelucos), is a painting by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. It is a...
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    Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (category 17th-century Spanish painters)
    1617, baptized January 1, 1618 – April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced...
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    at 69 years (Spanish: Autorretrato) is an oil painting by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Two original versions of this work have been preserved...
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    an aquatint by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya. Created between 1797 and 1799 for the Diario de Madrid, it is the 43rd of the 80 aquatints...
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    of Santa Barbara near Madrid in Spain. Although they are not the only tapestry cartoons made at the Royal Factory (other painters of this factory were...
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