La Academia de Roma y la tardía modernización de la pintura en España (1900-1915)

Abstract

The Spanish Fine Arts Academy of Rome had an important contribution to the development of Modern Painting in Spain in the beginning of the twentieth century, in spite of its traditional regulation. The scholarship holders (mostly history painters, although there were also landscape painters) were forced to execute a drawing from a classical statue, an original canvas with life-size nude studies, the copy from an old master and a great narrative painting. Nevertheless, they were connected to post-impressionist trends: some painters were interested in symbolist subjects and some others in the visual perception of reality. The present work, based on a documental research in Rome, shows their art activity during the scholarship period between 1900 and 1915.