Claims of the death of history and other narrative painting in the late nineteenth century are greatly exaggerated if not false. Among those who brought new ideas and styles to the genre was the great Spanish artist Francisco Pradilla Ortiz (–). In this article, I take a short look at a selection of his paintings.
Francisco Pradilla Ortiz was born in near Zaragoza, in Aragon, in north-eastern Spain. He started his artistic training locally, then moved to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, also studying there at the Academy of Watercolourists.
His first major painting as a student was his version of the popular narrative, Rape of the Sabine Women (), which won him a scholarship to study at the Spanish Academy in Rome &#; the Spanish equivalent of the French Prix de Rome.
This shows the classical Roman legend in which the early citizens of Rome, almost entirely men, carried off the women of their friends and neighbours the Sabines, as captive
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The Surrender of Granada
painting by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz
This article is about the painting. For the historical event, see Treaty of Granada ().
La rendición de Granada (English:The Surrender of Granada) is a work by the Spanish painter Francisco Pradilla Ortiz completed in , which is located in the Conference Room or Salón de los Pasos Perdidos of the Spanish Senate Palace.[1]
This large ( meters high by meters wide) oil on canvas depicts the surrender of Boabdil, last ruler of the Emirate of Granada, to Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille on 2 January , thus marking the end of the Reconquista.[1]
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Pradilla was commissioned by the Senate to produce this work following the success of his painting Doña Joanna the Mad, which had won medals of honor at both the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of and the Spanish section of the Universal Exposition in Paris that same year.[2]