Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts
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The Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (Spanish: Medalla de Oro al mérito en las Bellas Artes) is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain to individuals or institutions excelling in artistic or cultural creation or to those that have provided valuable services to promotion of art and culture or to conservation of artistic heritage.
Award recipients
Some famous award recipients
- Salvador Dalí (painter, sculptor), 1971
- Rafael Manzano (architect), 1972
- Joan Miró (painter), 1980
- Luis Buñuel (cinema director), 1981
- Plácido Domingo (Singer), 1983
- Rufino Tamayo (painter), 1985
- Eleanor Sayre, (international expert on Goya), 1991
- Joan Brossa (poet, playwright and experimental artist), 1995
- Joaquín Achúcarro (pianist, teacher), 1996
- Pedro Almodóvar (cinema director), 1998
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 1998
- Carmen Laffón (painter), 1999[1]
- Oscar de la Renta (fashion designer), 1999
- Chus Lampreave, 2001[2]
- Joaquín Sabina (singer, composer), 2005
- Carmen Linares (singer), 2005
- Enrique Morente (singer), 2005
- Alberto Schommer, (photographer), 2008
- Antonio Banderas (actor), 2008
- Miguel Bosé (singer, composer), 2009
- El Hortelano (painter), 2009
- Eloísa García de Wattenberg (historian), 2010
- Alejandro Sanz (singer, composer), 2011
- Ángel Peralta Pineda (rejoneador), 2013
- Mansilla+Tuñón (architects), 2014
- Alaska (singer), 2015
- María La Ribot (dancer), 2015[3]
- Anne-Sophie Mutter (musician), 2016
- Mauricio Wiesenthal (writer), 2016
- Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), 2020
References
- ^ "Relación de premiados del año 1999" [1999 List of Winners] (PDF) (in Spanish). Ministry of Culture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ Galán, Diego (5 April 2016). "Muere Chus Lampreave, rostro emblemático del cine español". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ "Gregorio Marañón y Cristina Iglesias, Medalla de Oro de las Bellas Artes". La Tribuna de Toledo (in Spanish). Toledo. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
