Valentín Carderera Y Solano Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Valentín Carderera Y Solano
early life and education valentín carderera y solano, a renowned spanish painter, erudite scholar, and collector, was born on february 14, 1796, in huesca, spain. he attended the universidad sertoriana de huesca, where he studied philosophy, followed by drawing in zaragoza with buenaventura salesa and painting in madrid at the royal academy of arts, under the tutelage of mariano salvador maella and josé de madrazo. career highlights * i
n 1822, carderera received a grant to study in rome, courtesy of josé de palafox, duke of villahermosa, which enabled him to travel extensively throughout italy until 1831. * upon his return to spain, he was commissioned in 1836 to create an inventory of nationalized art from suppressed monasteries in castile. * carderera became a governing member of the museo real de pintura y escultura board in 1838 and a member of the real academia…