JOSÉ MARÍA AVRIAL

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -By Gautam Shah 

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José María Avrial y Flores (1807-1891) was a Madrid born Spanish Painter, illustrator, scenographer, a decorator for festivities and religious ceremonies, landscape painter and a perspective expert. He also contributed art work for many publications.

Avrial began art studies at very young age of 12, at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Later, his teachers entrusted him with creating the Lithographic collection of paintings of the king of Spain. He was named, ‘Person of Merit’ by the academy in 1837, for his drawings of the old districts of Madrid. That same year, he was appointed Director of the School of Fine Arts in Segovia, where he established classes in decorative painting and perspective.

In 1839, Avrial presented the San Fernando Academy with a series of drawings depicting the antiquities of Segovia, including the rooms at the Alcázar. He was selected to head the painting section at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Cádiz in 1853. In 1865, Avrial wrote an illustrated report on the archaeological studies of Spain's national architecture.

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