STUDIO-TALK
EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GRAN
CAPITAN GONZALO DE CORDOBA
BY MATEO INURRIA
of his paintings in New York, which Cordoba on the 23rd of March in 1867,
achieved a distinct success : there were He made his first studies in decorative
thirty-two paintings by him shown here, sculpture with his father, and went later
In the recent Spanish Exhibition at to Madrid, where he went through
Burlington House, besides the Valencia the Schools of Painting and Sculpture.
Poem, he showed Tea Rose and Twilight. Inurria had the opportunity of visiting
He has won gold and silver medals in and studying later the masterpieces of
Madrid, Paris, Brussels and Panama. 0 ancient and modern art in Italy, France
The sculptor Mateo Inurria Lainosa, and Belgium, before he settled finally in
two specimens of whose work are shown his own country, where he became Director
here—a mounted group of the Spanish of the National Art Schools (Escuela de
leader Gonzalo de Cordoba and a Artes y Oficios), a post which entails his
beautiful marble female torso, exhibited residence in Madrid. Mateo Inurria has
this winter at Burlington House under won medals of the first and second class in
the title of Forma—was born himself at National and International Exhibitions, and
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EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GRAN
CAPITAN GONZALO DE CORDOBA
BY MATEO INURRIA
of his paintings in New York, which Cordoba on the 23rd of March in 1867,
achieved a distinct success : there were He made his first studies in decorative
thirty-two paintings by him shown here, sculpture with his father, and went later
In the recent Spanish Exhibition at to Madrid, where he went through
Burlington House, besides the Valencia the Schools of Painting and Sculpture.
Poem, he showed Tea Rose and Twilight. Inurria had the opportunity of visiting
He has won gold and silver medals in and studying later the masterpieces of
Madrid, Paris, Brussels and Panama. 0 ancient and modern art in Italy, France
The sculptor Mateo Inurria Lainosa, and Belgium, before he settled finally in
two specimens of whose work are shown his own country, where he became Director
here—a mounted group of the Spanish of the National Art Schools (Escuela de
leader Gonzalo de Cordoba and a Artes y Oficios), a post which entails his
beautiful marble female torso, exhibited residence in Madrid. Mateo Inurria has
this winter at Burlington House under won medals of the first and second class in
the title of Forma—was born himself at National and International Exhibitions, and
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