Full Name: Tormo y Monzó, Elías
Other Names:
- Elias Tormo
Gender: male
Date Born: 1869
Date Died: 1954
Home Country/ies: Spain
Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre), sculpture (visual works), and Spanish (culture or style)
Career(s): educators
Overview
Chair in art history at the University of Madrid; Minister of Public Instruction; his Monastery of Guadalupe was chosen for English translation by the Hispanic Society of America for their series Art in Spain. Tomro was among the first generation of professional Spanish art historians (Bazin), whose ranks included.
Selected Bibliography
The Monastery of Guadalupe. Art in Spain, [published] under the Patronage of the Hispanic Society of America. Barcelona: Hijos de J. Thomas, 1923.
Sources
Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l’histoire de l’art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986 p. 441.