Calle de Marceliano Santa María

The name recalls Marceliano Santa María Sedano, a painter born in Burgos in 1866 and died in Madrid in 1952. The surname is not a religious dedication: it marks one of the most acclaimed Castilian landscape painters of his day. His most famous work was a large canvas, over six metres wide, on the triumph of the Holy Cross at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, painted around 1892 during a stay in Italy. It was shown at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where it won a medal, and it is kept today in the Burgos museum that bears the painter’s name. Santa María divided his life between the fields of Castile, which he painted in low light and wide horizons, and a Madrid where he kept a studio. In El Viso, the street is a short stretch of little more than two hundred metres, within the garden layout of this corner of Chamartín.