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Daniel Zuloaga Boneta (Madrid, 1852 – Segovia, 1921) was a ceramist and painter, the leading reviver of Spanish artistic ceramics in the 19th century. Trained at Sèvres, he worked in Madrid and Segovia and left monumental work on emblematic buildings in the capital.
Daniel Zuloaga Boneta was born in Madrid inside a family workshop: his father ran the Royal Armoury and mastered metal damascening; his mother worked in electroplating. In 1865 he entered the imperial Sèvres manufactory with his brothers, where he learned ceramic chemistry until the Franco-Prussian War sent them back to Spain.
In 1877 a decree by Alfonso XII placed the Royal Factory of La Moncloa in his hands, and later he moved to Segovia. There he bought something unusual for a potter: a whole Romanesque church, San Juan de los Caballeros, which he turned into a studio and kiln and which now houses the Zuloaga Museum.
His mark covers half of Madrid without many realizing it. He dressed the façades of the Palacio de Velázquez in the Retiro, the Palacio de Cristal, the School of Mining Engineers and the Ministry of Public Works. To do so he recovered forgotten techniques—cuerda seca, metallic lustre—recipes inherited from the Hispano-Muslim world and the Renaissance. In 1911 his “Mural of the Turkeys” won the top medal at the National Exhibition of Decorative Arts.
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- Anexo: Cerámica de Daniel Zuloaga en la arquitectura — Wikipedia ES
- Museo Zuloaga (Segovia) — Wikipedia ES
- Hospital de Jornaleros de San Francisco de Paula — Ministerio de Cultura