CARLOS DE HAES ( 1829-1898)
Torres della Cebolleda III (2,445 m - 8,022 ft)
Spain (Asturias)
In Picos de Europa, oil on canvas, c. 1872-1875 Museo nacional del Prado
The mountain
Torre de Cebolleda III is located in the Western Massif of the Picos de Europa or Cornión, on the edge of the Asturian councils of Amieva and Cangas de Onís in the Cantabrian Mountains. It is the main and highest peak of the three towers called Torres de Cebolleda. The difficulty of his ascension is classified as something difficult higher. The normal itinerary starts from the Lakes of Covadonga and passes through the refuge of Vegarredonda.
Torre de CebolledaIII is part of the The Picos de la Europa massif, a mountainous massif located in the north of Spain that belongs to the central part of the Cantabrian mountain range. Although not very extensive, its proximity to the sea makes it lavish in geographic features of great interest. Currently, the Picos de Europa National Park is the second most visited national park in Spain.
This limestone formation extends through Cantabria, León and the Principality of Asturias, and its heights stand out, in many cases above 2500 m, because of how close they are to the Cantabrian Sea, because at its northernmost point they are only a short distance away. 15 kilometers from the sea.
The painter
The spanish painter Carlos Sebastián Pedro Hubert de Haes was noted for the Realism in his landscapes, and was considered to be the "first contemporary Spanish artist able to capture something of a particularly Spanish 'essence' in his work". He was cited along with Jenaro Perez Villaamil and Aureliano de Beruete as one of the three Spanish grand masters of landscape painting, the latter of which was his pupil.
In the 1850s, Haes was involved in the rise of the Realist school of landscape. Coincidentally his landscape and wildlife paintings of the Monasterio de Piedra occurred at the time of an academic opening for the Painting School of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the selection to be made by a landscape competition. In 1857 he became the first professor of landscape painting, the first in Spain to teach painting directly from nature. In 1860, he became an Academic at the Royal Academy. In 1876, he presented at the National Exhibition with La Canal de Mancorbo en los Picos de Europa ("The Canal of Mancorbo in the Picos de Europa") later acquired by the Spanish state to be part of the collection of the Museo del Prado, because of its significance as a realistic Spanish landscape painting.
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