Marceliano Santa María Sedano (Burgos, 1866-Madrid, 1952). Spanish painter. He began his artistic training at the hands of his father, silversmith and goldsmith. Later he attended the Drawing Academy of the Consulate of the Sea of Burgos, being a student of Isidoro Gil Gabilondo and Evaristo Barrio. Later he moved to Madrid, where he attended classes at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, the Círculo de Bellas Artes and the studio of the painter Manuel Domínguez.
He attended the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts, and won a third class medal in 1887 with the pontifical mass. Then he moved to Rome thanks to a grant from the Provincial Council, sending from there The triumph of the Holy Cross to the National Exhibition of 1892, where he won a second class medal. Back in Spain he began a long career as a teacher at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid, which would become director in 1934, but did not prevent him from continuing to attend the National Exhibitions. In 1908 he presented the canvas the daughters of Cid rescued by the squire Ordoño and in 1910 Angelica and Medoro, with which he won a first class medal. Throughout his long and prolific life he accumulated official positions and practiced all pictorial themes, history paintings, portraits, self-portraits and landscapes linked to Castile. Of the latter, the Prado has a representation with Landscape of Castile, deposited in Burgos in the Museum that bears his name.
He was elected academic numerary of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1912, in 1934 he got a medal of honor for his work Figuras de Romance and in 1946 he was awarded the cross of Alfonso X the Wise. He continued to paint until the end of his life.
