The most important Spanish painters in history
The top 3 according to 15 votes from people: El Greco · Salvador Dalí · Diego Velázquez. (Updated Oct 31, 2024.)
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.
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Top 15
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El Greco
Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Crete, 1541 - Toledo, 1614); The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.
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Salvador Dalí
Figueres, 1904-1989. The big name of Surrealism; The Persistence of Memory (1931).
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Diego Velázquez
Seville, 1599-1660. Court painter to Philip IV; Las Meninas (1656), in the Prado.
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Pablo Picasso
Málaga, 1881-1973. Co-founder of Cubism; Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica (1937).
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Seville, 1617-1682. Immaculate Conceptions and street children; Children Eating Grapes and Melon.
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Francisco de Zurbarán
Fuente de Cantos, 1598-1664. Monks and still lifes of absolute austerity.
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José de Ribera
Xàtiva, 1591 - Naples, 1652. 'Lo Spagnoletto', a tenebrist in Spanish Naples; The Martyrdom of Saint Philip.
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Juan Gris
Madrid, 1887 - Paris, 1927. One of the great Cubists alongside Picasso and Braque.
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Antoni Tàpies
Barcelona, 1923-2012. The leading name of Art Informel, with matter, sand and signs.
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Antonio López García
Tomelloso, 1936. The master of realism; Gran Vía, painted over seven summers.
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Julio Romero de Torres
Córdoba, 1874-1930. Dark-haired women and copla; La Fuensanta.
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Francisco de Goya
Fuendetodos, 1746-1828. From tapestry cartoons to the Black Paintings; The Third of May 1808.
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Joaquín Sorolla
Valencia, 1863-1923. The painter of Mediterranean light; Strolling along the Seashore (1909).
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Joan Miró
Barcelona, 1893-1983. Surrealism and abstraction in pure colours; his foundation is on Montjuïc.
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Mariano Fortuny
Reus, 1838 - Rome, 1874. Fine detail and light; The Spanish Wedding (La vicaría).
Candidates
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16
Ignacio Zuloaga
Eibar, 1870-1945. Portraits and characters of Generation of '98 Spain.
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Maruja Mallo
Viveiro, 1902 - Madrid, 1995. Painter of the Generation of '27 and Surrealism.
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Remedios Varo
Anglès, 1908 - Mexico City, 1963. A Surrealist who made her career in Mexico.
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Comments (9)
Goya segundo es justísimo. Las pinturas negras te dejan helado.
Dalí es más personaje que pintor
Qué bien ver a Maruja Mallo y Remedios Varo en la lista 👏
Velázquez primero, Las Meninas es el cuadro más estudiado de la historia del arte.
Falta Juan de Juanes jaja, es broma, lista muy completa.
Julio Romero de Torres en el 16 me sabe a poco, la Fuensanta es preciosa
Sorolla y su luz del Mediterráneo, la casa museo de Madrid es una joya.
Picasso debería ser primero por influencia, no hay pintor más importante del siglo XX.
Influencia sí, pero como pintor puro Velázquez está en otra liga.