By training Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (Bayonne, 20 June 1833 – Monchy-Saint-Eloi, 8 September 1922) could be considered a Spanish painter. Not surprisingly their first steps into the world of painting came from the hands of the brothers Madrazo in Madrid, city where he lived for several years because of his family's business. This formative detail would not move from the anecdotal if not in their influences reparásemos, largely linked to the Spanish Golden Age painting, clearly influenced by naturalism and even undeniably gloomy Hispanic link. Also, Bonnat be one of French artists, by Manet and many other, who managed to recover the Spanish painting in European eyes.
However, its importance today has decreased significantly due to the thrust of Impressionist painting and other pioneers isms of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, many of whose representatives, so tired curious, his students were just: Toulouse-Lautrec, Braque, Munich, Ensor…
And most importantly for our interests, left us a work in portraying, air somewhat and manners whose characters remind us own Murillo, the facade of the old Hospital of San Sebastian titled Young woman doing charity at the entrance to the chapel of San Sebastian hospital in Cordoba ('Young woman giving alms to the entrance of the hospital chapel in San Sebastian Cordoba').
Notese the replica The Coronation of the Virgin Velazquez framing the cover. Artistic license?? Representation? Originally existed in that place?
Among the most significant of producing your portraits are Bonnat. Victor Hugo This will serve us to introduce the author of those verses Besançon:
… Cordoba with old houses,
A mosque where the eye loses
in Wonderland…
(Victor Hugo)
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