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Joaquín Sorolla Religion
Joaquín Sorolla Religion
Joaquín Sorolla Religion
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Joaquín Sorolla (born in Valencia 1863 - died in Cercedilla 1923) is one of the most successful Spanish painters ever. He was a genius in capturing the essence of the scene he was painting.

Joaquín Sorolla was a proud Catholic that believed in Christian values like hard work, providing for your descendants and mercy. Sorolla painted many religious work but is better known for his wonderful beach scenes full of light, his intense portraits and breathtaking landscapes.

He lived while photography was being invented and popularized. Some of his breathtaking beach scenes show how he was familiar with and employed similar techniques as the photographer. His landscapes are a great introduction to Spanish history.
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Release dateDec 14, 2023
ISBN9788411746144
Joaquín Sorolla Religion
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    Joaquín Sorolla Religion - Cristina Berna

    About the authors

    Cristina Berna loves photographing and writing. She also creates designs and advice on fashion and styling.

    Eric Thomsen has published in science, economics and law, created exhibitions and arranged concerts.

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    Contact the authors

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    Published by www.missysclan.net

    Cover picture:

    Front: El bautizo 1899

    Inside: Penitents, Holy Week, Sevilla 1914

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    Content

    Introduction

    Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

    Estudio de Cristo1883

    Escena historica1883

    Monja en oracíon1883

    The Good Thiefor Saint Dimas 1885

    La Virgen María1885

    Sketch of The Burial of Christ, presented in the National Exhibition of 1887

    Fragment belonging to the painting The Burial of Christ corresponding to the upper right portion next to St. John's head, which is suggested in the lower left corner1887

    The Prayer1888

    Santa en oración1888

    Señora de Sorolla1906

    Santa Catarina, Valencia

    Father Jofré Protecting a Madman,1887

    Tower of Santa Catalina, Valencia

    El día feliz1892

    El pescador- 1904

    Altar del Pouet de Sant Vincent1891

    Portal de Pouet de San Vicent Ferrer

    Portal de Pouet de San Vicent Ferrer

    Altar of Saint Vincent Ferrer, Valencia1892

    Ex Voto1892

    In the sacristy1893

    La bendición de Isaac

    Jacob recibe la bendición de Isaac1675 Antonio Zanchi

    El beso de la reliquia1893

    Bendiciendo el barco1895

    Yo soy el pan de la vida1897

    The Family of Rafael Errazuriz"1905

    Puente alto vinyards, Chile

    Martyrdom of St Thomas, 1636, Peter Paul Rubens

    El bautizo1899

    The Moorish Proselytes of Archbishop Jiménes, Granada 1500, 1873, Edwin Long

    Triste Herencia1899

    El bautizo1900

    Retrato del hijo de Alejandro de Anitua1900

    Monja en el Jardin

    Procesión de Sevilla1914

    Children carrying a Mikoshi, Asakusa 2006

    Procession carrying a Shiva, Madurai, 2017

    Gion Festival in Tōri-ichōme 1859, Utagawa Hiroshige

    Penitents, Holy Week, Sevilla1914

    Virgen del Rosario de la Hermandad de Monte-Sion1914

    Virgen del Rosario de la Hermandad de Monte-Sion1914

    La Virgen del Valle1914

    El baile, Sevilla1914

    Captivated by nativity figurines at the Christmas marketby Sevilla Cathedral 30 Nov 2017

    Galicia, The Pilgrimage1915

    Capilla de la finca Láchar, Granada1917

    Láchar Castle, Andalucia

    El rey Don Rodrigo arengado a sus tropas en la bataillea de Guadalete (711 AD) 1871, Bernardo Blanco y Pérez

    La Rendiciōn de Granada1882, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz

    Moor with Oranges1885

    Arab examining a Pistol1881

    Unknown title

    A Hebrew

    Expulsiōn de los judíos - The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain (in 1492) 1889, Emilion Sala Francés

    Lepanto Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto

    Lepanto Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto Paolo Veronese 1571

    Estudio para Moro a caballo 1901

    Moro a caballo 1901

    Horseshoe arch doorway

    San Juan de Baños 661 AD

    La sorpresa de Zahara1901

    Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia in the Harbor of Tripoli 1897

    Sacking of Rome 455 AD

    Monja en un interior, 1919

    References

    Photo credits

    Introduction

    Joaquín Sorolla (born in Valencia 1863 - died in Cercedilla 1923) is one of the most successful Spanish painters ever. He was a genius in capturing the essence of the scene he was painting.

    Joaquín Sorolla was a proud Catholic that believed in Christian values like hard work, providing for your descendants and mercy. Sorolla painted many religious work but is better known for his wonderful beach scenes full of light, his intense portraits and breathtaking landscapes.

    He lived while photography was being invented and popularized. Some of his breathtaking beach scenes show how he was familiar with and employed similar techniques as the photographer. His landscapes are a great introduction to Spanish history.

    Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

    Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (born 27 February 1863 in Valencia – died 10 August 1923 in Cercedilla, Madrid) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of his native Spain and its sunlit water.

    Sorolla was the eldest child born to a draper, also named Joaquin Sorolla, and his wife, Concepción Bastida. His sister, Concha, was born a year later. In August 1865, both children were orphaned when their parents died, possibly from cholera. They were then cared for by their maternal aunt and uncle, a locksmith.

    He received his initial art education at the age of 9 in his native town Valencia, continuing under a succession of teachers including Cayetano Capuz and Salustiano Asenjo. At the age of eighteen he traveled to Madrid, vigorously studying master paintings in the Museo del Prado. After completing his military service, Sorolla, at age twenty-two, obtained a grant which enabled a four-year term to study painting in Rome, Italy, where he was welcomed by and found stability in the example of Francisco Pradilla, the director of the Spanish Academy in Rome. A long sojourn to Paris in 1885 provided his first exposure to modern painting; of special influence were exhibitions of Jules Bastien-Lepage and Adolf von Menzel. Back in Rome he studied with José Benlliure, Emilio Sala and Jose Vellegas Cordero.

    In 1888, Sorolla returned to Valencia to marry Clotilde García del Castillo, whom he had first met in 1879, while working in her father's studio. By 1895, they would have three children together: Maria, born in 1890, Joaquín, born in 1892, and Elena, born in 1895. In 1890, they moved to Madrid, and for the next decade Sorolla's efforts as an artist were focused mainly on the production of large canvases of orientalist, mythological, historical, and social subjects, for display in salons and international exhibitions in Madrid, Paris, Venice, Munich, Berlin and Chicago.

    His first striking success was achieved with Another Marguerite (1892), which was awarded a gold medal at the National Exhibition in

    Portrait of the painter Joaquín de Sorolla y Bastida by José Jiménez Aranda in 1901

    Madrid, then first prize at the Chicago International Exhibition, where it was acquired and subsequently donated to the Washington University Museum in St Louis, Missouri. He soon rose to general fame and became the acknowledged head of the modern Spanish school of painting. His picture The Return from Fishing (1894) was much admired at the Paris Salon and was acquired by the state for the Musée du Luxembourg. It indicated the direction of his mature output.

    Sorolla painted two masterpieces in 1897 linking art and science: Portrait of Dr. Simarro at the microscope and A Research. These paintings were presented at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts held in Madrid in that year and Sorolla won the Prize of Honor. Here, he presents his friend Simarro as a man of science who transmits his wisdom investigating and, in addition, it is the triumph of naturalism, as it recreates the indoor environment of the laboratory, catching the luminous atmosphere produced by the artificial reddish-yellow light of a gas burner that contrasts with the weak mauvish afternoon light that shines through the window. These paintings may be among the most outstanding world paintings of this genre.

    An even greater turning point in Sorolla's career was marked by the painting and exhibition of Sad Inheritance (1899), an extremely large canvas, highly finished for public consideration. The subject was a depiction of crippled children bathing at the sea in Valencia, under the supervision of a monk. They are the victims of hereditary syphilis the title implies, perhaps. Campos has suggested that the polio epidemic that struck the land of Valencia some years earlier is present, possibly for the first time in the history of painting, through the image of two affected children. The painting earned Sorolla his greatest official recognition, the Grand Prix and a medal of honor at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, and the medal of honor at the National Exhibition in Madrid in 1901.

    A series of preparatory oil sketches for Sad Inheritance were painted with the greatest luminosity and bravura, and foretold an increasing interest in shimmering light and of a medium deftly handled.

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