Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (Spain)
The Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain to individuals or institutions excelling in artistic or cultural creation or to those that have provided valuable services to promotion of art and culture or to conservation of artistic heritage.Award recipients
Some famous award recipients
- Salvador Dalí, 1971
- Rafael Manzano, 1972
- Joan Miró, 1980
- Luis Buñuel, 1981
- Plácido Domingo, 1983
- Rufino Tamayo, 1985
- Eleanor Sayre,, 1991
- Joan Brossa, 1995
- Pedro Almodóvar, 1998
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 1998
- Carmen Laffón, 1999
- Oscar de la Renta, 1999
- Joaquín Sabina, 2005
- Carmen Linares, 2005
- Enrique Morente, 2005
- Alberto Schommer,, 2008
- Antonio Banderas, 2008
- Miguel Bosé, 2009
- El Hortelano, 2009
- Eloísa García de Wattenberg, 2010
- Alejandro Sanz, 2011
- Ángel Peralta Pineda, 2013
- Mansilla+Tuñón, 2014
- Alaska, 2015
- María La Ribot, 2015
- Anne-Sophie Mutter, 2016
- Mauricio Wiesenthal, 2016
