# The most important Spanish painters in history

The Spanish painters who come up most in press and art-history lists, from the Golden Age to the avant-garde, with their best-known work.

- 15 votes · 18 items
- Oct 31, 2024 · lola espinosa
- https://even.best/en/l/212/the-most-important-spanish-painters-in-history

## Top 15

1. **El Greco** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Crete, 1541 - Toledo, 1614); The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.
2. **Salvador Dalí** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Figueres, 1904-1989. The big name of Surrealism; The Persistence of Memory (1931).
3. **Diego Velázquez** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Seville, 1599-1660. Court painter to Philip IV; Las Meninas (1656), in the Prado.
4. **Pablo Picasso** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Málaga, 1881-1973. Co-founder of Cubism; Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica (1937).
5. **Bartolomé Esteban Murillo** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Seville, 1617-1682. Immaculate Conceptions and street children; Children Eating Grapes and Melon.
6. **Francisco de Zurbarán** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fuente de Cantos, 1598-1664. Monks and still lifes of absolute austerity.
7. **José de Ribera** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Xàtiva, 1591 - Naples, 1652. 'Lo Spagnoletto', a tenebrist in Spanish Naples; The Martyrdom of Saint Philip.
8. **Juan Gris** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Madrid, 1887 - Paris, 1927. One of the great Cubists alongside Picasso and Braque.
9. **Antoni Tàpies** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Barcelona, 1923-2012. The leading name of Art Informel, with matter, sand and signs.
10. **Antonio López García** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Tomelloso, 1936. The master of realism; Gran Vía, painted over seven summers.
11. **Julio Romero de Torres** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Córdoba, 1874-1930. Dark-haired women and copla; La Fuensanta.
12. **Francisco de Goya** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fuendetodos, 1746-1828. From tapestry cartoons to the Black Paintings; The Third of May 1808.
13. **Joaquín Sorolla** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Valencia, 1863-1923. The painter of Mediterranean light; Strolling along the Seashore (1909).
14. **Joan Miró** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Barcelona, 1893-1983. Surrealism and abstraction in pure colours; his foundation is on Montjuïc.
15. **Mariano Fortuny** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Reus, 1838 - Rome, 1874. Fine detail and light; The Spanish Wedding (La vicaría).
16. **Ignacio Zuloaga** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Eibar, 1870-1945. Portraits and characters of Generation of '98 Spain.
17. **Maruja Mallo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Viveiro, 1902 - Madrid, 1995. Painter of the Generation of '27 and Surrealism.
18. **Remedios Varo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Anglès, 1908 - Mexico City, 1963. A Surrealist who made her career in Mexico.

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