Calle de Los Madrazo
Named after the Madrazo family, a dynasty of artists that dominated 19th-century Spanish art. Formerly Calle de la Greda, after the mounds of gray clay in the area; in 1894 it took the name of Federico de Madrazo, and in 1898 it was broadened to “los Madrazo” to cover the whole line.
Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz painted half of 19th-century Spain: portraits of Isabella II’s court, ladies, ministers, the bourgeoisie. He directed the Prado and had his studio at number 24 of this street, where he also died in 1894.
When he and his brother Pedro passed away, the City Council decided a single name fell short. The street honors a whole line: three generations of painters and art historians from one family. Few streets in Madrid carry an entire family tree on their sign.
Its names
- Calle de la Gredah.1600–1894
- Calle de Federico de Madrazo1894
- Calle de los Madrazo1898
Sources (7)
- Calle de los Madrazo — Wikipedia
- Madrid: sus viejas calles — Madrazo (blog, cita a Répide)
- Federico Madrazo y Kunz — Wikipedia
- Pedro de Madrazo y Kuntz — Wikipedia
- Federico de Madrazo — Patrimonio y Paisaje Urbano, Ayuntamiento de Madrid (placa conmemorativa)
- Por las calles de Madrid — Calle de los Madrazo
- Peñasco de la Puente, H. y Cambronero, C., Las calles de Madrid: noticias, tradiciones y curiosidades (1889) — BNE Digital