Artist: Fernando Gallego (1443 - 1507)
Nationality: Spanish
Movement: Renaissance
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Fernando Gallego painted altarpieces and religious works in late 15th century Spain, mixing Spanish and Netherlandish influences. He was admired for his ability to paint dramatic human expression. One of his last and most respected commissions was the ceiling of the University of Salamanca’s library, which depicted the constellations and zodiac signs.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Pietà
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Jules Worms, Un Gallego, 19th century
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Anonymous, Morning Sun, Sunkist, San Fernando Heights Lemon Assn., San Fernando, Cal., circa 1930 - 1940
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Anonymous, Evening Star, San Fernando Heights Lemon Assn. San Fernando, California, circa 1930 - 1940
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Anonymous, Ramona Memories, San Fernando Heights Lemon Association, San Fernando, Los Angeles Co., California, circa 1930 - 1940
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Anonymous, Silver Moon, Sunkist, San Fernando Heights Lemon Assn., San Fernando, California, circa 1930 - 1940
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Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas - Miss La LA at the Cirque Fernando 1879 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London French
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Fernando Selma, The Israelites Crossing The Red Sea, 18th - 19th century
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Edgar Degas, French, 1834-1917 Au Cirque Fernando At the Cirque Fernando [Au Cirque Fernando] France
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Fernando Vilchis, "Senal No. 11", 20th century
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Fernando Selma, The Return of Jacob, 1777
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Fernando Selma, The Return of Jacob, 1777
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Fernando Selma, Portrait of Prince de la Paz, Spanish Commander General, 1803
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Fernando Selma, Portrait of Prince de la Paz, Spanish Commander General, 1803
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Fernando Zobel, Illescas, 1968
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Fernando Zobel, Untitled, 20th century
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JosÈ Simon de Larrea, Fernando VII, 1808
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Fernando Zobel, Untitled, 20th century
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Fernando Zobel, Untitled(Abstract Landscape), 1965
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Francisco JosÈ de Goya y Lucientes, Un Infante de Espana (Infante Don Fernando), after the painting now in the Prado, 1868
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Fernando Selma, Portrait of Count de Floridablanca, First Secretary of State, 18th - 19th century
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Fernando Selma, Donna Maria Josefa Pimentel, 1794
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Fernando Selma, Music and the Emotions, 18th - 19th century
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Manuel Salvador Carmona, Portrait of Don Fernando de Silva Alvarez de Toledo, 12th Duke of Alba, 1786
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Pierre Auguste Renoir - Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg) 1879 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Fernando Castro Pacheco, Yarn Making, 20th century
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Fernando Ramos Prida, Sonata para la invencion de un sueno, 1971
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Fernando Selma, Madonna della Tenda, 18th - 19th century
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Fernando Selma, Flavio Josefo Natural De Jerusalen, 18th - 19th century
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Fernando Selma, Vista de Tarregona from road to Barcelona, 18th - 19th century
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Fernando Selma, Imagen de Christo en el Descendimiento de la Cruz, 18th - 19th century
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Portrait of a Cardinal, Probably Cardinal Don Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541-1609), ca. 1600 El
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Fernando Garcia-Ponce, Composicion 14 (Composition 14), eleventh plate in the portfolio, 21 Estampadores de Colombia, Mexico y Venezuela (21 Printmakers of Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela), 1972
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Fernando Botero - Adam and Eve 1973 pencil Arkansas Arts Center Colombian
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Ipolito Salazar, su alteza imperial y real, archiduque de austria/ fernando maximiliano,/ emperador electo de mÈxico (His Imperial Royal Highness, Archduke of Austria, Ferdinand Maximilian, Emperor Elect of Mexico), circa 1864
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Maréchal Francisco Serrano
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Tom·s LÛpez EnguÌdanos, Portrait of General Urrutia, Duke of the Infantado, 1804
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San Fernando Tunnel, Los Angeles County, SPRR
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Francisco JosÈ de Goya y Lucientes, Brabisimo! (Bravo!), plate 38 from the series Los Caprichos (Caprices), 1799
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Apparition of the Virgin

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (5)
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Latino Art Museum: Latino Art Biennale 2005
As in the art world in general, this group of Latino artists presents styles varying from the traditional to the contemporary. The influence of heritage is apparent in a few, as in Cinthya Castillo’s enhanced photo of a native dancer, Delores Haro...
Joan Miro Foundation: The beauty of failure / The failure of beauty
The exhibition is about how great dreams and utopias that seem so splendid in the abstract are doomed to failure when we try to materialise them, because they presuppose an entirely new, ideal society that can never exist. The show is divid...
PS1 Contemporary Art Center: El real viaje Real / The Real Royal Trip
The contemporary artists in the exhibition are from Columbuss embarkation point, Spain, and the lands he explored, including Cuba, Costa Rica, and Brazil.  El real viaje Real / The Real Royal Trip, which is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, is...
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea: Compostela: Lars Arrhenius, Gabriele Basilico, Roland Fischer, Gunther Forg, Ruben Ramos Balsa, Humberto Rivas, Lorna Simpson, Montserrat Soto, Beat Streuli, Peter Wüthrich
Lars Arrhenius, Gabriele Basilico, Roland Fischer, Günther Förg, Rubén Ramos Balsa, Humberto Rivas, Lorna Simpson, Montserrat Soto, Beat Streuli and Peter Wüthrich were invited by Miguel Fernández-Cid, Head of the CGAC and curator of...
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea: A Stellar Moment for Galician Culture by Antonio Bonet Correa
(…) The same as in different Spanish regions, especially those located in peripheral areas but with their own cultural system, Galicia started a collective and operational process whereby the country had to be rescued f...

Further Artwork and Information:

Fernando Gallego Online
GALLEGO, Fernando
Fernando Gallego (1443 - 1507) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Fernando Gallego (Getty Museum)
Fernando Gallego
Biography
ASOCCEX - Asociados - Luis Fernando Gallego Garzón
Biografía - Gallego, Fernando
Fernando Gallego Christ Giving his Blessing
Fernando Gallego (1440-1507)

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