What is Luis Egidio Meléndez?
{{no sources|date=February 2018}} {{Orphan|date=May 2009}} [[Image:Self-portrait Holding an Academic Study by Luis Meléndez (detail)-2.jpg|thumb|right|Luis Egidio Meléndez]] '''Luis Egidio Meléndez''' (Naples, 1716-Madrid, 1780) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[painter]]. Although he received little acclaim or praise during his lifetime and died in [[poverty]], Meléndez is recognized today as the greatest Spanish [[still life]] painter of the eighteenth [[century]]. His mastery of [[Composition (visual arts)|composition]] and light, and his remarkable ability to convey the volume and [[texture]] of [[individual]] objects enabled him to transform the most mundane (ordinary) of kitchen fare into powerful [[image]]s. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Melendez, Luis Egidio}} [[Category:1716 births]] [[Category:1780 deaths]] [[Category:Spanish painters]] [[Category:Artists from Naples]]