Full Name: Cruzada Villaamil, Gregorio
Other Names:
- Gregorio Cruzada Villaamil
Gender: male
Date Born: 1832
Date Died: 1884
Home Country/ies: Spain
Subject Area(s): Spanish (culture or style)
Overview
Scholar of Spanish art and Rubens. Cruzada Villaamil researched Peter Paul Rubens’ lifelong ties with Spain, tracing the inventories of Philip IV through individual paintings. He compiled the Rubens Works he considered lost and extant. In 1880 Carl Nicolaus Heinrich Justi continued research on this and Cruzada Villaamil’s work ultimately set the foundation for Rubens catalog by Maximilian Rooses. Cruzada Villaamil’s invertory of Rubens’ paintings “remains a basic reference of Rubens’ Paintings in Spain” (Alpers)
Selected Bibliography
Catálogo provisional historial y razonado del Museo Nacional de Pinturas: formado de órden del Excmo. Sr. Ministro de Fomento, marqués de la Vega de Armijo. Madrid: Impr. de M. Galiano/Museo del Prad, 1865; edited, Carducho, Vicente. Diálogos de la pintura. Madrid: Impr. de M. Galiano, 1865; Los tapices de Goya. Madrid: M. Rivadeneyra, 1870; Anales de la vida y de las obras de Diego de Silva Velazquez, escritos con ayuda de nuevos documentos. Madrid: M. Guijarro, 1885.
Sources
Alpers, Svetlana. “Introduction.” The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part IX. New York: Phaidon, 1971, pp. 21-22.