Isidoro de Tapia (circa 1712 – active until 1771/1777), Rococo painter at the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid
Keywords:
Isidoro de Tapia, Academy of San Fernando, Junta Preparatoria, Royal Stables, Madrid, Spanish Painting, Rococo, XVIII centuryCopyright (c) 2015 Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte
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Abstract
The artist Isidoro Tapia is an example of the complex situation of painting in eighteenth-century Spain. His training in the Valencia Baroque artistic tradition was transformed when he moved to Madrid, where he entered the San Fernando Academy and worked in the service of the Royal Stables of the Royal Palace. His life is reconstructed from known and unpublished documents, interpreted in a broad context. A few signed paintings are used to group other similar style and build a small catalog of twenty-eight works, which reaffirms the artist's personality in front of the other contemporaries who have been allocated.