Colegio del Sacro Monte - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 14:40:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Colegio del Sacro Monte - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Francisco de Saavedra attributed to Goya https://historylab.es/francisco-de-saavedra-attributed-to-goya/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=francisco-de-saavedra-attributed-to-goya Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:25 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/francisco-de-saavedra-atribuido-a-goya/ Portrait of Francisco de Saavedra, attributed to Goya and painted at the end of the 18th century

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]]> Francisco de Saavedra was an enlightened Sevillian who, after dedicating his life to a military career, reached the Court as a minister of Charles IV during a serious social situation that he tried to resolve through some of the institutions in Granada that he had come to know during his academic training at the Colegio del Sacro Monte. This is precisely where the work attributed to Francisco de Goya is kept, as when Francisco de Saavedra was appointed Minister of Finance in 1797 he immediately informed the College, which was great news.
So much so that on 12 December 1797 the rector himself ordered that he be congratulated and commissioned a painting to celebrate the appointment, to perpetuate his figure in order to motivate the rest of the students and as a source of propaganda for this Granada institution. It is a full-length representation of Saavedra, seated in a chair and dressed in the costume of a captain general.

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