Background
Jose Alvarez Cubero was born at Priego de Cordoba on 23 April 1768. He was the son of a stonemason.
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La arquitectura ha estado vinculada al inestable concepto de arte, desde Grecia hasta nuestros días. Esta relación ha impactado el entendimiento de cómo la arquitectura llega a ser, por un lado, algo creativo e innovador y, por otro, sola y pura construcción. ¿Cuáles son los criterios que hacen de una construcción un objeto de arte? ¿Qué elementos requiere la arquitectura para pertenecer al privilegiado campo del arte? En este libro se abordan estos temas, se comparan otras disciplinas artísticas con la arquitectura y se ahonda en las interrogantes que se plantean cuando la arquitectura se inserta en lo artístico, con el fin de alentar el debate y la investigación al respecto y, sobre todo, para reflexionar sobre cómo se involucran entre sí los productores de lo arquitectónico y los que deciden qué edificio pertenece al mundo del arte.
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Jose Alvarez Cubero was born at Priego de Cordoba on 23 April 1768. He was the son of a stonemason.
He was taught by the French sculptor Miguel Verdiguier at Cordova, and at the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid.
In 1804 he executed a statue of Ganymede while in Paris, now in the Museo del Prado, which gained him immediate recognition as a leading sculptor.
His refusal to recognize Joseph Bonaparte as King of Spain led to his imprisonment in Rome. After his release he was employed by Napoleon I to decorate the Quirinal Palace.
In 1816 he was appointed court sculptor to Ferdinand VII. One of the most successful works of the elder Alvarez was a group representing Antilochus and Memnon, which was commissioned in marble (1818) by Ferdinand VII. It is now in the museum of Madrid. He also modelled a few portrait busts (Ferdinand VII. , Rossini, the duchess of Alba), which are remarkable for their vigour and fidelity.
After his return to Madrid, he taught at the Academy of San Fernando, where one of his pupils was the young Ponciano Ponzano (1813–1877), later to become one of the most famous of Spanish neoclassical sculptors of his day.
Álvarez died in Madrid on 26 November 1827.
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While in Paris Álvarez married Elizabeth Bougel, by whom he had a son in 1805. This son, Don Jose Alvarez y Bougel, also distinguished himself as a sculptor and a painter but died at Burgos before reaching the age of twenty-five.