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Born February 12, 1955 in Habána, Cúba. Emigrated to the United States on March 6, 1962. Lived in 2 years in Venice, Italy. Studied the old masters in Venice, Florence, Orvieto, Siena, Pisa and Milan as well as studies in Roman art in Pompeii and Herculaneum in Naples. Apart from studying drawing in Italy, while in Venice he learned gold leaf techniques used in altar paintings from the early Renaissance (1200’s) through the Quattrocento (1499), and still used in frame making, furniture and interiors . He learned how to use the media of tempera paints and glazes which were later replaced with oil paints beginning circa 1500 to the present. On his return from Italy he studied with the renowned Cuban painters Felix de Cossío and Terína O’Bourke, both highly successful and respected alumni of La Academia de San Alejándro, in Cúba. These maestros specialized in portrait and figure paintings influenced by the 18th and 19th Century British School of Painting as well as by the American society portrait and figure painter John Singer Sargent and the German Royal portraits of Franz Xavier Winterhalter. These qualities they emulated beautifully while at the same time keeping their own distinctively personal, timeless, contemporay styles. |
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