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All Luis Egidio Melendez 's Paintings
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ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
77971  
Detail of Self-portrait Holding an Academic Study, Luis Egidio Melendez
  		 Detail of Self-portrait Holding an Academic Study   Date 1746(1746) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 99.5 x 82 cm (39.2 x 32.3 in) cyf
75904  
Detail of Self-portrait Holding an Academic Study., Luis Egidio Melendez
  		 Detail of Self-portrait Holding an Academic Study.   1746 Oil on canvas 99.5 ?? 82 cm (39.2 ?? 32.3 in) cjr
76045  
Detail of Self-portrait Holding an Academic Study., Luis Egidio Melendez
  		 Detail of Self-portrait Holding an Academic Study.   1746(1746) Oil on canvas 99.5 ?? 82 cm (39.2 ?? 32.3 in) cjr
77389  
portrait Holding an Academic Study, Luis Egidio Melendez
  		 portrait Holding an Academic Study   Date 1746 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 99.5 ?? 82 cm (39.2 ?? 32.3 in) cyf
77698  
portrait Holding an Academic Study, Luis Egidio Melendez
  		 portrait Holding an Academic Study   1746 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 99.5 ?? 82 cm (39.2 ?? 32.3 in) cyf
74588  
Still Life With Figs, Luis Egidio Melendez
  		 Still Life With Figs   c. 1773 Oil on canvas 35.5 X 49cm cjr
76127  
Still Life With Figs, Luis Egidio Melendez
  		 Still Life With Figs   Date c. 1773 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 35.5 ?? 49cm cyf
74923  
Still Life with Fruit and Cheese, Luis Egidio Melendez
  		 Still Life with Fruit and Cheese   18th century Oil on canvas cjr
79448  
Still Life with Melon and Pears, Luis Egidio Melendez
  		 Still Life with Melon and Pears   18th century Oil on canvas cjr
85099  
Still Life with Oranges, Luis Egidio Melendez
  		 Still Life with Oranges   1760 - 65 Medium Oil on canvas cyf
83018  
The spy, Luis Egidio Melendez
  		 The spy   Oil on canvas 60cm x 40cm cyf
Luis Egidio Melendez
(Naples, 1716-Madrid, 1780) was a Spanish painter. Although he received little acclaim during his lifetime and died in poverty, Melendez is recognized today as the greatest Spanish still-life painter of the 18th century. His mastery of composition and light, and his remarkable ability to convey the volume and texture of individual objects enabled him to transform the most mundane of kitchen fare into powerful images. Luis Egidio Melendez de Rivera Durazo y Santo Padre was born in Naples in 1716. His father, Francisco Melendez de Rivera Diaz (1682- after 1758), was a miniaturist painter from Oviedo who had moved to Madrid with his older brother, the portrait painter Miguel Jacinto Melendez (1679-1734) in pursuit of artistic instruction. Whereas Miguel remained in Madrid to study and became a painter in the court of Philip V, Francisco left for Italy in 1699 to seek greater artistic exposure. Francisco took a special interest in visiting the Italian academies and settled in Naples where he married Maria Josefa Durazo y Santo Padre Barrille.Luis was a year old when his father, who had been a soldier in a Spanish garrison and lived abroad for almost two decades, returned to Madrid with the family. Luis Egidio, his brother Jose Agusten, and Ana, one of his sisters, began their careers under the tutelage of their father, who was appointed the King's Painter of Miniatures in 1725.After several years, in his words: painting royal portraits in jewels and bracelets to serve as gifts for envoys and ambassadors, he entered the workshop of Louis Michel van Loo (1707-1771), a Frenchman who had been made royal painter of Philip V of Spain. Between 1737 to 1742, Melendez worked as a part of a team of artist dedicated to copying van Loo's prototypes of royal portraits for the domestic and overseas market, but at least he had a foothold in the palace. He had his artistic sights on a distinguished career as a court painter.



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