Santiago Rebull Gordillo

Santiago Rebull Gordillo (* 1829 in Mexico City ; † 1902 there ) was a Mexican painter.

biography

Rebull, son of the Catalonian José Rebull and his Mexican wife Josefa Gordillo, began his studies at the Academia Nacional de San Carlos de México at the age of 18, where he studied with Pelegrín Clavé . For his portrait of Abel's death “La Muerte de Abel” he received a scholarship for further studies in Europe, where he studied for seven years at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome . After returning to his home country, he taught there from 1860 at the Academia Nacional de San Carlos de México and became rector there a year later. He was court painter to Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and painted the most famous portrait of the emperor.

Famous works

Emperor Maximilian and Empress Charlotte of Mexico.

The death of Marat

• Portraits of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, Empress Charlotte of Mexico , Porfirio Díaz (1872), Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1868), Benito Juárez (1872), José Yves Limantour (1893)
• "Virgen con Niño" (1841; Virgin with Child )
• "Sibila Comana" (1850)
• "Cristo en Agonía" (1851; Christ in agony )
• "La Muerte de Abel" (1851)
• "Poeta Elymas" (1853; poet Elymas )
• "El Ciego" (1853; The Blind )
• "Cabezas femeninas" (1853; female heads )
• "Napolitana" (1858; Neapolitan )
• "Sacrificio de Isaac" (1858; Isaac's offering )
• "La Muerte de Marat" (1875; The Death of Marat )
• "Rostro de la Virgen" (1893; face of a virgin )
• "Bacante", 1894
• "La Dolorosa" ( The Painful )
• " San Francisco "
• "Vertientes del Iztaccíhuatl" ( Views of the Iztaccíhuatl )

literature

• Nanda Leonardini: El Pintor Santiago Rebull. Su Vida Y Su Obra (1829-1902). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Direccion General de Extension Academica, Mexico 1983, ISBN 968-58-0381-1 .

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1. ↑ Santiago Rebull (English), Art Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ From Miramar to Mexico  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Exhibition catalog).  
3. ↑ Santiago Rebull (Spanish), Biografías y Vidas, 2004.