Early Life and Education Born: June 17, 1833, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico Parents: Cayetano Juan Oller y Fromesta and María del Carmen Cestero Dávila Began studying art at age eleven under Juan Cleto Noa. Demonstrated exceptional talent early on. In 1848, General Juan Prim offered him a scholarship to study in Rome, but his mother declined. At eighteen, moved to Madrid, Spain, to study at the Royal Academy of San Fernando under Don Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz. Studied in Paris, France, under Thomas Couture and Gustave Courbet. Artistic Development and Influences Early training…
A chart of Francisco Oller's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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