Elías Tormo
Spanish literary critic, historian, archaeologist, politician, art critic and jurist
About Elías Tormo
Lived 1869 – 1957 (aged 88). Elías Tormo was a Spanish literary critic, historian, archaeologist, politician, art critic and jurist.
Elías Tormo y Monzó (1869–1957) was a Spanish art historian.
Life Tormo was born in Albaida (Valencia), on 23 June 1869. He studied Law in Valencia and Arts in Madrid, becoming a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 1903 he moved to Universidad Central (now Complutense University of Madrid) to take up the first professorship in Art History ever to be established in Spain. He eventually became rector of the university.
Together with Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez he founded the journal Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología.
He died in Madrid on 21 December 1957.
Works Jacomart y el arte hispano-flamenco cuatrocentista (Madrid, 1913) Las Viejas series icónicas de los reyes de España (Madrid, 1916) with Francisco Javier Sánchez Cantón, Los Tapices de la Casa del Rey (Madrid, 1919) Levante (Madrid, 1923) Monumentos de Españoles en Roma, y de Portugueses e Hispano-Americanos (Madrid, 1942) Las Murallas y las torres, los portales y el Alcazar del Madrid de la Reconquista, creación del Califato (Madrid, 1945) with Francisco Javier Sánchez Cantón, Pintura, escultura y arquitectura en España (Madrid, 1949)
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Spanish literary critic, historian, archaeologist, politician, art critic and jurist
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Elías Tormo was born on 23 June 1869 in Albaida.
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Elías Tormo died on 21 December 1957 in Madrid.
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Elías Tormo was a literary critic, historian, archaeologist, politician, art critic and jurist.
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