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Enrique Simonet Lombardo (the 2nd of February 1866 - the 20th of April 1927) was a Spanish painter associated with the Malaga school of painting. He is best known for Heart's Anatomy (1890), painted in Rome, which brought him international recognition and multiple prizes. His monumental work painted after traveling to the Holy Land won medals in Madrid, Chicago, Barcelona, and Paris.
Enrique Simonet was born in Valencia and studied at the Saint Charles Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Valencia. Despite his Valencian origins, he joined the artistic circle in Málaga and attended the workshop of Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes, becoming part of the Malaga school of painting. In 1887 he received a grant to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome.
Simonet's monumental work painted after his travels to the Holy Land won him medals in Madrid in 1892, Chicago in 1893, Barcelona in 1896, and Paris in 1900. The painting's prize record over eight years across four cities marked him as one of the most internationally recognized Spanish painters of his era.
In 1893 and 1894, Simonet traveled to Morocco as a war correspondent for the illustrated magazine La Ilustración Española y Americana. The assignment placed him in an active conflict zone with a journalist's brief, a sharp contrast to his simultaneous career as an award-winning studio and academic painter.
Simonet's paintings are held at the Museo del Prado and the Museo de Málaga. His painting The Beheading of Saint Paul occupies a prominent position in the Málaga Cathedral. Large-scale decorative works, including Allegories of Law and Allegories of the Eight Provinces, are installed in the Palaces of Justice in Barcelona and Madrid respectively.
In 1901, Simonet became professor of Studies and Forms of Nature and Art at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid in 1911. Between 1921 and 1922 he served as director of the Private Paular for landscapers.