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John of God (Portuguese: João de Deus; Spanish: Juan de Dios; Latin: Joannes Dei; March 8, 1495 – March 8, 1550) was a Portuguese soldier turned health-care worker in Spain, whose followers later formed the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, a worldwide Catholic religious institute dedicated to the care of the poor, sick, and those suffering from mental disorders. He has been canonized by the Catholic Church, and is considered one of the leading religious figures in the Iberian Peninsula.

Object description
Type: Sculpture
Location: Museum of Málaga, Spain
Material: Wood, plaster
Artist: Unknown
Date: Unknown

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Date: 5 May 2022
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Jose Gartner, one of Ocon’s most promising disciples, was highly esteemed amongst Spanish painters for his mastery of the seascape genre. The canvas was his submission to the National Fine Arts Exhibition of 1892. The ragged remnants of Philip II’s mighty fleet dashed against the sheer cliffs by the raging sea, won him a second-place medal and other distinctions at various international shows. As a result the Prado purchased the work in 1894, and Malaga received it on long-term loan in 1933.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Museum of Málaga, Spain
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Jose Gartner de la Peña (1866-1918)
Date: 1892

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Date: 5 May 2022
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The romantic drama of this scene, with the foundering schooner and the desperate landing of the lifeboat, made this work of the Malaga-born artist’s most popular compositions. It was purchased from the painter’s widow by the National Museum of Modern Art after a posthumous exhibition held in 1904 and sent to Malaga on long-term loan in 1971.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Museum of Málaga, Spain
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Emilio Ocon y Rivas (1845-1904)
Date: 1893

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Date: 5 May 2022
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Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes (21 July 1835 – 3 May 1885) was a Spanish costumbrista painter. He is considered to be one of the founders of the “Escuela Malagueña [es]”.

He was born in Valencia, the son of a fisherman in the port district known as “El Cabanyal”. His artistic education began at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos with Francisco Martínez Yago. He later spent some time at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando with Federico de Madrazo and showed an early preference for genre scenes from everyday life.

His painting, “The Viaticum”, which portrayed a dying beggar, won him a stipend from the Diputación de Valencia [es] which enabled him to continue his studies abroad. In 1859, he went to Paris, where he took classes at the École des Beaux-Arts and exhibited at the Salon. He would make Paris his home base until 1868.

He travelled throughout North Africa and Italy and participated in numerous expositions, obtaining honorable mention at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1860. He was awarded second place there in 1864 and a silver medal in 1866.

In 1868, he was married and went to Málaga, where he had been given the Chair of Color and Composition at the Escuela de Bella Artes de San Telmo [es], despite some strong opposition. Ten years later, he was named the school’s Director. Among his notable students there were José Moreno Carbonero, Enrique Simonet and José Denis Belgrano. Because of his Republican sympathies, he was forced to leave Spain during the Third Carlist War and live in Rome until 1876.

His works are widely dispersed throughout Western Europe, although thirteen paintings are preserved at the Museo de Málaga. One of his best known canvases portrays a meeting of the Water Tribunal of the plain of Valencia shortly after its creation. It was bought by Napoleon III and is currently on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. In addition to his paintings, he decorated the ceiling at the Teatro Cervantes [es].

He died, aged 59, in Málaga. A monument to him has been installed in the Parque de Malaga [es]. It was designed by the sculptor Agapit Vallmitjana, who died before its dedication in 1913.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Museum of Málaga, Spain
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes (21 July 1835 – 3 May 1885)
Date: 1862

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Date: 5 May 2022
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ISO: 800
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Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes (21 July 1835 – 3 May 1885) was a Spanish costumbrista painter. He is considered to be one of the founders of the “Escuela Malagueña [es]”.

He was born in Valencia, the son of a fisherman in the port district known as “El Cabanyal”. His artistic education began at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos with Francisco Martínez Yago. He later spent some time at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando with Federico de Madrazo and showed an early preference for genre scenes from everyday life.

His painting, “The Viaticum”, which portrayed a dying beggar, won him a stipend from the Diputación de Valencia [es] which enabled him to continue his studies abroad. In 1859, he went to Paris, where he took classes at the École des Beaux-Arts and exhibited at the Salon. He would make Paris his home base until 1868.

He travelled throughout North Africa and Italy and participated in numerous expositions, obtaining honorable mention at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1860. He was awarded second place there in 1864 and a silver medal in 1866.

In 1868, he was married and went to Málaga, where he had been given the Chair of Color and Composition at the Escuela de Bella Artes de San Telmo [es], despite some strong opposition. Ten years later, he was named the school’s Director. Among his notable students there were José Moreno Carbonero, Enrique Simonet and José Denis Belgrano. Because of his Republican sympathies, he was forced to leave Spain during the Third Carlist War and live in Rome until 1876.

His works are widely dispersed throughout Western Europe, although thirteen paintings are preserved at the Museo de Málaga. One of his best known canvases portrays a meeting of the Water Tribunal of the plain of Valencia shortly after its creation. It was bought by Napoleon III and is currently on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. In addition to his paintings, he decorated the ceiling at the Teatro Cervantes [es].

He died, aged 59, in Málaga. A monument to him has been installed in the Parque de Malaga [es]. It was designed by the sculptor Agapit Vallmitjana, who died before its dedication in 1913.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Museum of Málaga, Spain
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes (21 July 1835 – 3 May 1885)
Date: 1880

Image details
Date: 5 May 2022
Camera body: Nikon D50
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Focal Length: 31mm
Aperture: ƒ/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/10s
ISO: 800
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Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes (21 July 1835 – 3 May 1885) was a Spanish costumbrista painter. He is considered to be one of the founders of the “Escuela Malagueña [es]”.

He was born in Valencia, the son of a fisherman in the port district known as “El Cabanyal”. His artistic education began at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos with Francisco Martínez Yago. He later spent some time at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando with Federico de Madrazo and showed an early preference for genre scenes from everyday life.

His painting, “The Viaticum”, which portrayed a dying beggar, won him a stipend from the Diputación de Valencia [es] which enabled him to continue his studies abroad. In 1859, he went to Paris, where he took classes at the École des Beaux-Arts and exhibited at the Salon. He would make Paris his home base until 1868.

He travelled throughout North Africa and Italy and participated in numerous expositions, obtaining honorable mention at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1860. He was awarded second place there in 1864 and a silver medal in 1866.

In 1868, he was married and went to Málaga, where he had been given the Chair of Color and Composition at the Escuela de Bella Artes de San Telmo [es], despite some strong opposition. Ten years later, he was named the school’s Director. Among his notable students there were José Moreno Carbonero, Enrique Simonet and José Denis Belgrano. Because of his Republican sympathies, he was forced to leave Spain during the Third Carlist War and live in Rome until 1876.

His works are widely dispersed throughout Western Europe, although thirteen paintings are preserved at the Museo de Málaga. One of his best known canvases portrays a meeting of the Water Tribunal of the plain of Valencia shortly after its creation. It was bought by Napoleon III and is currently on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. In addition to his paintings, he decorated the ceiling at the Teatro Cervantes [es].

He died, aged 59, in Málaga. A monument to him has been installed in the Parque de Malaga [es]. It was designed by the sculptor Agapit Vallmitjana, who died before its dedication in 1913.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Museum of Málaga, Spain
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes (21 July 1835 – 3 May 1885)
Date: 1866

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Date: 5 May 2022
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Focal Length: 19mm
Aperture: ƒ/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/15s
ISO: 800
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José Denis Belgrano (b. Málaga, April 8, 1844 – d. February 12, 1917) was a Spanish painter.

Belgrano was given a scholarship by Carlos Larios, Marquess of Guadiaro, to study in Rome where he lived for two years. Back to Málaga, he registered at the Malaga Art School in 1868, present-day Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Málaga, where he was a student of Bernardo Ferrándiz. After two more years in Rome in the mid-1870s, he became professor at this school in 1887.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Museum of Málaga, Spain
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: José Denis Belgrano (1844–1917)
Date: 1891

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Date: 5 May 2022
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José Moreno Carbonero (Spanish: [xo’se mo’reno karbo’nero]; 24 March 1858 – 15 April 1942) was a Spanish painter and decorator. A prominent member of the Málaga School of Painting, he is considered one of the last great history painters of the 19th century. He was a celebrated portrait painter who enjoyed the patronage of Madrid’s high society. He also created genre scenes and some landscapes, vedutas and still lifes.

Moreno Carbonero was widely recognized, both nationally and internationally, during his lifetime. He received awards, among others, at the Exposition Universelle of Paris in 1889, the Budapest International Exhibition in 1890, the Universal Exhibition of Berlin in 1891 and the only medal at the World’s Columbian Exposition of Chicago in 1893.

His work is represented at some of the most influential museums in the world, with El Prado Museum, in Madrid, holding an important collection. Among his masterworks are The Entry of Roger de Flor in Constantinople (1888), The Prince don Carlos de Viana (1881), The Conversion of the Duke of Gandía (1884) and The Founding of Buenos Aires (1910–1924).

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Museum of Málaga, Spain
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: José Moreno Carbonero (1858–1942)
Date: 1902

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Enrique Simonet Lombardo (February 2, 1866 – April 20, 1927) was a Spanish painter.

Simonet was born in Valencia. His first vocation of childhood was religious studies, but he abandoned it to devote himself to painting. Despite being Valencian and studying at the Saint Charles Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Valencia, he joined a circle of artists in the city of Málaga. He also attended the workshop of Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes, forming part of the Malaga school of painting.

In 1887 obtained a grant to study painting in the Fine Arts Academy in Rome, where he painted in 1890 Heart’s Anatomy; a painting that would bring him international recognition and which won him several prizes. Taking advantage of his stay Simonet traveled throughout Italy, visited Paris several times and in 1890 he made a tour of the Mediterranean. He also traveled to the Holy Land, where he painted his monumental work Flevit super illam (painting); work for which he received numerous medals including Madrid in 1892, Chicago in 1893, Barcelona in 1896 and Paris in 1900. In 1893 and 1894 Simonet traveled to Morocco as a war correspondent for the magazine La Ilustración Española y Americana.

In 1901 he became professor of Studies and Forms of Nature and Art, at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. In 1911 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. Between 1921 and 1922 he was director of the Private Paular for landscapers.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Museum of Málaga, Spain
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Enrique Simonet (1866-1927)
Date: 1890

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Date: 5 May 2022
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The 19th century was one of the most significant periods in the city’s history. The booming economy, the rising bourgeoisie and urban planning reforms combined to forge its identity and that of the future Museum of Málaga.

In those years, the development of industry and trade facilitated the establishment of a liberal bourgeois class who, motivated by that material prosperity, began to show their interest in the arts and education. They created centres of learning and institutions like the School of Fine Arts and the Royal Academy of San Telmo, which soon replaced the church and nobility as the new patrons of art.

The city underwent an unprecedented urban transformation as working-class neighbourhoods sprang up, the historic quarter was remodelled, and new venues of artistic enjoyment and entertainment were built, such as the Cervantes Theatre. The painter Bernardo Ferrándiz was hired to decorate the theatre’s interior. The great painting on the ceiling of the performance hall was to feature the port and railway station as symbols of Málaga’s enterprising spirit and progress, and industry, commerce and agriculture were also represented in this allegorical composition, which presents the city as a protector and patron of the fine arts.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Museum of Málaga, Spain
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Bernardo Ferrandiz y Badenes (1835-1885)
Date: 1890

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Date: 5 May 2022
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Focal Length: 19mm
Aperture: ƒ/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/20s
ISO: 800
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