Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz

Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz (1917).

Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz (born July 24, 1848 in Villanueva de Gállego, Aragon , † November 1, 1921 in Madrid ) was a Spanish painter.

Pradilla learned from two theatrical decorators in Saragossa , came to Madrid in 1863 and studied the works of the older masters. He became a student of Alfredo Serri in Rome and completed his artistic training there in the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz: The Surrender of Granada , 1882

His first important painting was The Rape of the Sabine Women , which Johanna the Mad followed in 1878 accompanied by the coffin of her husband Philip the Fair , for which he received a medal of honor at the Paris World Exhibition of 1878. On behalf of the City Council of Saragossa , he carried out the counterparts Don Alfonso, the warrior and Don Alfonso, the scholar ; but he surpassed these works by a richly figured representation of the handover of Granada to Ferdinand and Isabella ( La rendición de Granada ) (1882), which is characterized as much by the delicacy of the characteristics as by the liveliness of the description and the grandeur of the style, and which on the Munich exhibition in 1883 brought in the first medal. King Alfonso XII awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order Isabel la Católica for the picture . In addition to these large compositions, Pradilla also executed small genre pictures from modern folk life in the witty, sketchy style of Marià Fortuny .

In 1894 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and in 1897 was awarded the order Pour le Mérite for sciences and arts .

Individual evidence

↑ Carlos Reyero Hermosilla: La rendición de Granada 1882 . In: Pilar de Miguel Egea (ed.): El Arte en el Senado . Departamento de Publicaciones del Senado, Madrid 1999, ISBN 978-84-88802-35-4 , p. 294–298 (Spanish, [1] [accessed August 1, 2019]).

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personal data
SURNAME	Pradilla y Ortiz, Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ortiz, Francisco P. y; Pradilla Ortiz, Francisco; Pradilla, Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 24, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Villanueva de Gállego, Aragon
DATE OF DEATH	November 1, 1921
Place of death	Madrid

[1] Carlos Reyero Hermosilla: La rendición de Granada 1882 . In: Pilar de Miguel Egea (ed.): El Arte en el Senado . Departamento de Publicaciones del Senado, Madrid 1999, ISBN 978-84-88802-35-4 , p. 294–298 (Spanish, [1] [accessed August 1, 2019]).