Ricardo de Orueta

Ricardo de Orueta y Duarte (* 1868 in Málaga , † 1939 in Madrid ) was a Spanish art critic and art historian .

From 1911 he taught at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza . Orueta was related to Juan Ramón Jiménez , José Ortega y Gasset and José Moreno Villa . As an art historian, he worked on sculptors such as Pedro de Mena , Gregorio Fernández and, above all, Alonso Berruguete , and he also did research on Spanish grave sculpture. As a politician of the Second Spanish Republic , he belonged to the Partido Reformista and was a close ally of Manuel Azaña . Twice, 1931–33 and 1936 he was Director general de Bellas Artes and tried to preserve the "national art treasure" ( Tesoro Artístico Nacional ) in troubled times. Orueta founded several museums, most notably today's Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid .

Works

La vida y la obra de Pedro de Mena y Medrano. CEH, Madrid 1914. (Reprint: Pedro de Mena. Universidad de Málaga, 1989, ISBN 84-7496-169-6 )
Berruguete y su obra. Calleja, Madrid 1917. (New edition: Ministerio de Cultura-MNCSG, Madrid 2011, ISBN 978-84-8181-485-9 . Corrected, with a foreword and photos by Orueta)
La escultura funeraria en las provincias de Cuenca, Ciudad Real y Guadalajara. Aache Ediciones, 2000, ISBN 84-95179-44-X .
La escultura funeraria en España. (inconcluso).

M. Cabañas Bravo, A. López-Yarto, W. Rincón (coords.): Arte en tiempos de guerra. Madrid, CSIC, 2009, ISBN 978-84-00-08867-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Orueta, Ricardo de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Orueta y Duarte, Ricardo de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish art critic and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Málaga
DATE OF DEATH	1939
Place of death	Madrid