Vitoria-Gasteiz is the seat of government and the capital city of the Basque Country and of the province of Álava in northern Spain. It holds the autonomous community's House of Parliament, the headquarters of the Government, and the Lehendakari's official residency. The municipality—which comprises not only the city but also the mainly agricultural lands of 63 villages around—is the largest in the Basque Country, with a total area of 276.81 square kilometres (106.88 sq mi), and it has a population of 253,093. The dwellers of Vitoria-Gasteiz are called vitorianos or gasteiztarrak, while traditionally they are dubbed babazorros.
Jesús Mari Lazkano is a Spanish Basque painter. He graduated in fine arts from the University of the Basque Country, where he is Professor of Fine Arts, and has had exhibitions in Europe, America and Asia. Some of his work is part of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum collection.
Edwin Howland Blashfield was an American painter and muralist, most known for painting the murals on the dome of the Library of Congress Main Reading Room in Washington, DC.
The University of the Basque Country is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community.
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is an art museum located in the city of Bilbao, Spain. The building of the museum is located entirely inside the city's Doña Casilda Iturrizar park.
Urrutia, meaning "distant, far away" in Basque is the name of a family that originated in Zumárraga in the province of Gipuzkoa, and then spread out throughout the Basque country, and eventually throughout the Americas and the Philippines.
Aurelio Arteta Errasti was a Spanish painter who worked in several styles, including Symbolism, Cubism and Social Realism. He is remembered mostly for his murals.
Josep Guinovart i Bertran was a Spanish painter best known for his informalist or abstract expressionist work.
Amaya Salazar is a Dominican artist and painter. She known for her faceless personas that inhabit mystical and magical environments where light and the Antillean flora are present.
Josu Urrutia Tellería is a Spanish former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Francisco Mora was a Mexican artist of the "Mexican School" of mural painters.
Eduard Arranz Bravo was a Catalan Spanish painter.
Juan Niceto de Zamacois y Urrutia was a Spanish journalist, playwright, poet, novelist and historian resident in Mexico. He was half-brother of the painter Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, the singer Elisa Zamacois, and the actor Ricardo Zamacois, and also was uncle of the writers Miguel Zamacoïs and Eduardo Zamacois, and the music composer Joaquín Zamacois.
The Reproductions Museum Bilbao, was created in 1927, the purpose of the museum is to compile classic pieces of art for the enjoyment of the local people. Among the works reproduced faithfully from museums like the Louvre, Vatican or British Museum: the Panathenaic Frieze of the Parthenon, the Slaves and the Moses of Michelangelo, the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory, the Laocoön Group, the Apoxyomenos, Gabies's Diana and Apollo Belvedere, among others.
Nestor Basterretxea Arzadun was a Basque artist, born in Bermeo, Biscay, Basque Country. In the 1950s and 1960s, he spearheaded along with other artists such as Jorge Oteiza, Remigio Mendiburu, or Eduardo Chillida, an avant-garde artistic movement concerned with the crisis of Basque identity, and formally a special focus on large volumes and the concept of emptiness.
Jerónimo Vicente Vallejo Cósida was a Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor, goldsmith and architect.
The Museum of Fine Arts of Álava is located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country, Spain. The museum is dedicated to Spanish art from the 18th to the 20th century, and particularly to Basque art from the 1850–1950 period. Opened in 1942, it is located at the Augustin Zulueta Palace.
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ is a 1634-40 painting by the Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck. One of his last treatments of the subject, it is now in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, having entered it in 1985. It was previously in the collection of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle, before later passing into the Valdes Izaguirre collection.
June Crespo Oyaga is a Spanish artist.
