Angélico Cabañas, fraile y pintor [Angelico Cabañas, friar and painter]

Abstract

This paper serves as an introduction to the life and artistic work of the painter Angelico Cabañas, born in Sesma, Navarre, in 1903. At the age of fifteen, in 1918, he entered the novitiate of the Carmelite Fathers and was ordained a priest in 1928. At the same time he developed his love of painting and joined the Academy of San Carlos in Valencia in 1930. He lived mostly in convents in Valencia and Zaragoza but did not neglect contact with Navarre. He left a traditional, figurative oeuvre, consisting of portraits, still lifes and paintings with a religious theme. He died early in 1936, murdered at the start of the Spanish Civil War.