Julio Cavestany de Anduaga

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Juan van der Hamen y León , Faience fruit bowl with passion fruit, crab apples and pears , 54 cm × 65 cm, oil on canvas, around 1621. The picture was attributed to the artist in 1935 by Cavestany de Anduaga.

Julio Cavestany de Anduaga (* 1883 in Madrid ; † 1965 there ) was a Spanish art historian .

Julio Cavestany de Anduaga studied Spanish history and art history . He worked for the Spanish Tourism Association and in this role took over the reorganization of the Museo Arqueológico de Burgos in Burgos . For the Exposición Ibero-Americana in Seville in 1929 he designed the tourism pavilion. In 1935, under the supervision of Julio Cavestany de Anduaga, the house in which Lope de Vega had spent the last years of his life was rebuilt. In the same year he organized the exhibition Floreros y bodegones en la pintura española . It was the first large and important exhibition on Spanish still life . The publication published on the occasion of this exhibition and only published in 1940 as a result of the Spanish Civil War was decisive for Spanish still life and for artists such as Juan van der Hamen y León until the 1960s . In 1941 Julio Cavestany became a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Since 1951 he was a member of the board of directors of the Museo del Prado . In 1952 he became director of the Museo Nacional del Siglo XIX , on whose board of directors he later moved up and which later became part of the Museo del Prado. Two years later he became chairman of the Sociedad Española de Amigos del Arte .

Publications (selection)

  • 1930: El retrato de fray Alonso de San Vitores pintado por fray Juan Andres Ricci y otras obras burgalesas del Fraile artista yertradista .
  • 1935, together with Pedro Muguruza and Francisco Javier Sánchez Cantón : La Casa de Lope de Vega .
  • 1940, together with Enrique Lafuente Ferrari : Floreros y bodegones en la pintura española .
  • 1951: La Infanta Isabel y la Sociedad Española de Amigos del Arte .
  • 1955: El pintor Manuel García Hispaleto .

Web links

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  1. ^ William B. Jordan: Juan van der Hamen y León & The Court of Madrid. Yale University Press, New Haven 2005. ISBN 0-300-11318-8 . P. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Cavestany de Anduaga, Julio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH 1965
Place of death Madrid