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Luis Simarro and his friends Cajal and Sorolla: three men, one passion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Nieves Fernandez
Nieves Fernandez*
Affiliation:
Conservation Department, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7, Ireland
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Abstract

Luis Simarro, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Joaquín Sorolla were friends who cultivated art and science in an unhappy Spain. Simarro was the country's leading psychiatrist at the turn of the 20th century, Ramón y Cajal, or simply Cajal as he came to be known in the wider world won the Nobel Prize for his work on the nervous system, and Sorolla is remembered as ‘the Velázquez of light’. All three felt a deep love of Spain and strove to bring freedom, science and the light of truth to their countrymen, each in his own unique way.

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Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 32 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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