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With
this monographic work and reasoned catalogue the author wishes to raise
awareness concerning the artistic activity of this Valencian artist
from the second half of the 17th century. José Camarón Bonanat was born
into a family of Aragonese origin with a great artistic tradition,
which has lasted through to our days. He trained with his father, the
sculptor Nicolás Camarón, and his uncle, the well-known miniature
painter, Eliseo Camarón, who was responsible for the pictorial
decoration of the choir books of Segorbe Cathedral. His humanist
training was completed in the Jesuit School and Residence in the same
city.
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He
performed his artistic activity largely in Valencia, a city in which he
undertook a variety of pictorial decoration works, for different
churches and convents, his most important collection being in the
Cartuja de Portaceli, in Bétera. Outside Valencia, his most outstanding
collaboration was in the pictorial decoration of the Cloister of San
Francisco el Grande in Madrid (1788-1789) and in the Baptistery of the
Cathedral in Palma de Mallorca. Of his vast output of drawings, his
most outstanding were his participations in several editions of Don
Quixote. He stood out as a painter during Valencian painting’s period
of splendour in the second half of the 18th century. He cultivated
landscape and genre scenes, and he was known, above all, for having
been one of the finest Spanish drawing artists of his time. His
painting is characterised by his refined style and by the typology of
his female figures, endowed with great delicacy, closer to a Rococo
style than to the predominant Classicism.
Author: Adela
Espinós Díaz
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