![]() ![]() Of the three main themes cultivated by these artists, particularly important are their genre paintings and pictures with figures (additionally, in the case of Manuel, Fortuny-style "dress coat painting") and themes relating to Africa and the Orient – typically Romantic subjects in which, as good Andalusians, they employed their greatest iconographic resources). ![]() ![]() Their work can thus be situated between the academic tradition and modern aesthetics. The interesting, miscellaneous pictorial work of the brothers Rafael and Manuel García Martínez – who led similar lives and were known as the "Hispaletos" due to their Sevillian origin and to distinguish them from other artists with the same names – developed in a climate of aesthetic eclecticism spanning Romanticism in the reign of Isabella II and realism in the Bourbon Restoration and included references to the schools of Seville, Madrid, Rome and Paris. ![]()
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