Ignacio Baz

Argentine painter

Ignacio Baz
Born	1826 San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
Died	1887
Nationality	Argentine

Ignacio Baz (1826–1887) was an Argentine painter who painted many portraits of notable people in the region during his lifetime.

Life

Ignacio Baz was born in San Miguel de Tucumán in 1826 and died in 1887. He was a disciple, alongside Fernando García del Molino and Eustaquio Carrandi, of the renowned painter Carlos Morel.^[1]

Work

Baz portrayed great personalities in Tucumán, Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Chile and Lima, Peru. He also made portraits of caudillos such as Juan Manuel de Rosas, Juan Felipe Ibarra, Facundo Quiroga and Ángel Vicente Peñaloza.^[2]

When his niece offered a collection of his work for sale to state in 1904, the Senator for Tucumán Province, Alberto Soldati, spoke in favor of the purchase, saying Ignacio Baz was one of the greatest of national portrait artists. His portraits, painted over a period of forty years, were striking resemblances of the most distinguished members of the leading families in the provinces of North and many of Cordoba and the coast".^[3] His works may be seen at the Museum of Fine Arts Eduardo Sivori, shown by Rodolfo Trostiné (Buenos Aires) and the Museum of Fine Arts "Timoteo Eduardo Navarro" (City of Tucumán)

Gallery

Manuel Vicente Maza. Original in the Museo Histórico Nacional
Manuel Vicente Maza, Argentine lawyer and politician
Portrait of Doña Josefa Romero Urrea de Nougués
El Chacho (Angel V. Peñaloza)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

References

Citations

^ Goldini 2007.
^ Delgado 2004.
^ Páez de la Torre 2009.

Sources

Delgado, Roberto Rafael (August 2004). "Falta de Conciencia Nacional en las Artes Plasticas Argentinas". Fundacion Cultural de Santiago del Estero. Archived from the original on 2008-06-14. Retrieved 2012-11-05.
Goldini, Claudio (7 February 2007). "Carlos Morel el primer pintor argentino". Archived from the original on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 2012-11-05.
Páez de la Torre, Carlos (May 13, 2009). "El retratista Ignacio Baz". Retrieved 2012-11-05.
Trostiné, Rodolfo (1953). El Pintor tucumano Ignacio Baz. Buenos Aires: Imprenta Coni.