Calle Pintor Domínguez
The street bears the name of Manuel Domínguez Sánchez (Madrid, 1840 – Cuenca, 1906), an academic painter trained at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts and awarded a scholarship in Rome from 1864. He won a first-class medal at the 1871 National Exhibition for The Death of Seneca, now in the Prado Museum. The street belongs to the Fuente del Berro neighbourhood, an area of the Salamanca district with several streets dedicated to 19th-century academic painters.
Manuel Domínguez Sánchez was born in Madrid on 21 December 1840 and died in Cuenca in 1906. He learned to paint under Federico de Madrazo at the San Fernando Higher School of Fine Arts, and in 1864 the Academy of Spain granted him a scholarship to leave for Rome.
His breakthrough came with an enormous, gruesome canvas. In 1871 he won the first-class medal at the National Exhibition with a scene showing Seneca opening his veins and stepping into a bath to hasten his own death. The canvas measures 270 by 450 centimetres, and the government bought it in 1873 for the Prado Museum. The rest of his career unfolded between the classrooms of San Fernando, where he became an academician in 1904, and the decorative cycles of the Santoña and Linares palaces.
It has not been established when the sign went up nor which municipal file dedicated the street to his name.