Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (Spain)

The Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (Spanish: Medalla de Oro al mérito en las Bellas Artes) is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain to individuals or institutions excelling in artistic or cultural creation or to those that have provided valuable services to promotion of art and culture or to conservation of artistic heritage.

Award recipients[]

Some famous award recipients

Salvador Dalí (painter, sculptor), 1971
Rafael Manzano (architect), 1972
Joan Miró (painter), 1980
Luis Buñuel (cinema director), 1981
Plácido Domingo (Singer), 1983
Rufino Tamayo (painter), 1985
Eleanor Sayre, (international expert on Goya), 1991
Joan Brossa (poet, playwright and experimental artist), 1995
Joaquín Achúcarro (pianist, teacher), 1996
Pedro Almodóvar (cinema director), 1998
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 1998
Carmen Laffón (painter), 1999^[1]
Oscar de la Renta (fashion designer), 1999
Chus Lampreave, 2001^[2]
Joaquín Sabina (singer, composer), 2005
Carmen Linares (singer), 2005
Enrique Morente (singer), 2005
Alberto Schommer, (photographer), 2008
Antonio Banderas (actor), 2008
Miguel Bosé (singer, composer), 2009
El Hortelano (painter), 2009
Eloísa García de Wattenberg (historian), 2010
Alejandro Sanz (singer, composer), 2011
Ángel Peralta Pineda (rejoneador), 2013
Mansilla+Tuñón (architects), 2014
Alaska (singer), 2015
Maria Pages (dancer & choreographer), 2015
María La Ribot (dancer), 2015^[3]
Anne-Sophie Mutter (musician), 2016
Mauricio Wiesenthal (writer), 2016
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), 2020

References[]

^ "Relación de premiados del año 1999" [1999 List of Winners] (PDF) (in Spanish). Ministry of Culture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
^ Galán, Diego (5 April 2016). "Muere Chus Lampreave, rostro emblemático del cine español". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
^ "Gregorio Marañón y Cristina Iglesias, Medalla de Oro de las Bellas Artes". La Tribuna de Toledo (in Spanish). Toledo. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2019.

External links[]

Official website

[1] "Relación de premiados del año 1999" [1999 List of Winners] (PDF) (in Spanish). Ministry of Culture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2019.

[:0-2] Galán, Diego (5 April 2016). "Muere Chus Lampreave, rostro emblemático del cine español". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 9 January 2021.

[3] "Gregorio Marañón y Cristina Iglesias, Medalla de Oro de las Bellas Artes". La Tribuna de Toledo (in Spanish). Toledo. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2019.

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