The Royal Palace of Milan held a major temporary Sorolla exhibition, titled Joaquin Sorolla: Pittore di luce (painter of light)
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Joaquín Sorolla
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of Spain and sunlit water.
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culture · Spanish painter (1863–1923) · painter · university teacher · also Joaquín Sorolla, Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Joaquim Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin Sorolla Y Bastida, Joachim Sorrolla y Bastida
Born 27 February 1863 · Died 10 August 1923 · Q351746
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2022· 1 entry
2019· 1 entry
The National Gallery, London, held a major temporary Sorolla exhibition, titled Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light
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2016· 1 entry
The Munich Kunsthalle held a major Sorolla exhibition
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2009· 1 entry
There was a special exhibition of his works at the Prado in Madrid, and in 2010, the exhibition visited the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba, Brazil
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2008· 1 entry
And the murals toured museums in Spain for the first time
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2007· 1 entry
Many of his works were exhibited at the Petit Palais in Paris, alongside those of John Singer Sargent, a contemporary who painted in a similarly impressionist-influenced manner
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1960· 1 entry
Sorolla, el pintor de la luz, a short documentary written and directed by Manuel Domínguez was presented at the Cannes Film Festival
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1923· 1 entry
Died 1923-08-10.
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1920· 1 entry
While painting a portrait in his garden in Madrid
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1911· 1 entry
Sorolla visited the United States for a second time, and exhibited 152 new paintings at the Saint Louis Art Museum
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1909· 1 entry
Commissioned through the Hispanic Society of America, was capped by the Portrait of Mr
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1908· 1 entry
Sorolla met Archer Milton Huntington, who made him a member of the Hispanic Society of America in New York City, and invited him to exhibit there in 1909
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1907· 1 entry
Career landmark: vocal of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones científicas (1907).
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1906· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1906).
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Eclipsed all his earlier successes and led to his appointment as Officer of the Legion of Honour
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1902· 1 entry
Awarded Grand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII (1902).
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1901· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1901).
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1900· 1 entry
And the medal of honor at the National Exhibition in Madrid in 1901
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1890· 2 entries
Moved to Madrid, and for the next decade Sorolla's efforts as an artist were focused mainly on the production of large canvases of orientalist, mythological, historical, and social subjects, for display in salons an
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Joaquín, born in 1892, and Elena, born in 1895
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1888· 1 entry
Sorolla returned to Valencia to marry Clotilde García del Castillo, whom he had first met in 1879, while working in her father's studio
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1885· 1 entry
Provided his first exposure to modern painting; of special influence were exhibitions of Jules Bastien-Lepage and Adolph von Menzel
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1863· 1 entry
Born 1863-02-27.
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