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Francisco Pradilla - Francisco Pradilla Ortiz (July 24, 1848–November 1, 1921) was a prolific Spanish painter famous for creating historical scenes. He was born in Villanueva de Gállego, near Zaragoza in Aragon, and studied initially in Zaragoza and then transferred to the San Fernando Royal Academy of ...

Goya Route in Aragon - “Fantasy abandoned by reason produces monsters, but together with it, it is the mother of the Arts” (Francisco de Goya). Francisco de Goya y Lucientes was born in 1746 in Fuendetodos, a small village in the province of Zaragoza. His beginnings were in master Luzan’s studio. ...

Dali and the Costa Brava - Salvador Dali, the great master of surrealism holds a great appeal for visitors to the Costa Brava. Figueres, Cadaques - Portlligat and Pubol form the three corners of Salvador Dali's Triangle Salvador Dali Domenech (1904 – 1989), was a Catalan-Spanish artist who became one of the most ...

Carlos Ezquerra - Born in November 1947, in Zaragoza, Spanish comics artist who works mainly in British comics and now he lives in Andorra, he has also worked under de name of L. John Silver. He is best known as the co-creator of Judge Dredd. In the 1970s he worked for Battle Picture Weekly, drawing such strips as ...

Angel Orensanz - Angel Orensanz, Painter, Sculptor and Performance Artist. Born in Larues, Aragon in 1944, Angel Orensanz has produced a richly nuanced, highly personal art ranging from large and complex abstract sculptures in materials as varied as glass, ceramics and metal, to representational works on paper, to ...

Luis Royo - Luis Royo was born in 1954 in Olalla, a small village in the province of Teruel, Spanish artist, illustrator, known for his sensual paintings of women and mechanical forms of life, he has also started doing sculptures of some of his earlier art. He has produced many for his own books/exhibitions, ...

Pablo Gargallo - Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter (1881-1934). His work ranges from art nouveau to expressionism and cubism. Pablo Gargallo was born on January 5th, 1881, in the town of Maella, in the province of Zaragoza (Aragon). His father owned a blacksmith’s which would assist him in ...

Antonio Saura - Antonio Saura was born in 1930 in Huesca, (Aragon) and was one of the famous Spanish artists of the last 50 years. Antonio Saura lived with his family in Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona. From an early age he accompanied his father on visits to the Prado Museum where he was deeply impressed by ...

Pertegaz - Considered to be one of the classics of Spanish fashion design, Manuel Pertegaz was born in 1917 in Olba (Teruel), although just a few years after his birth his family moved to Barcelona. It was there that he had his first job in a shop in Carmen Street. He discovered that his true vocation lay in ...

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