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Carnival atmosphere on Ash Wednesday in the early depicts a man sleeping in front of all of the osten- 2. The Spring. 1563
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
19th century. There are also works by Alonso Cano, tation of life, which will ultimately bring death, and
3. They Have Flown. 1799
Murillo and Rubens, among many other European the mysterious Woman at Prayer by Julio Romero de Francisco de Goya
painters, whose art was the basis for the standards Torres, the most noteworthy exponent of a certain © San Fernando Royal Acade-
that students were expected to follow. José Gutiérrez type of Spanish symbolism in the early 20th century. my of Fine Arts
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Solana, Antonio López and Lucio Muñoz studied at
the School of Fine Arts.
San
Antonio de la
Florida
In a surprising use of trompe l’oeil,
the characters painted by Goya in 1798
seem to lean down towards us from the
dome above. In the early 20th century
the artist’s remains were moved
to this chapel, which is now a
mausoleum for the painter who
was best able to portray
Madrid.
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