Cerralbo Museum
Museo Cerralbo | |
_01.jpg) Façade of Cerralbo Museum, at 17 Calle de Ventura Rodríguez | |
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| Established | 1944 |
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| Location | Calle Ventura Rodríguez 17, Madrid, Spain |
| Coordinates | 40°25′25.26″N 3°42′52.48″W / 40.4236833°N 3.7145778°W |
| Type | Fine art museum, numismatic museum, antiquities museum, decorative arts museum |
| Official name | Museo Cerralbo |
| Type | Non-movable |
| Criteria | Monument |
| Designated | 1962 |
| Reference no. | RI-51-0001382 |
The Cerralbo Museum (Spanish: Museo Cerralbo) is a State-owned museum located in Madrid, Spain. It houses the art and historical object collections of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, Marquis of Cerralbo, who died in 1922.[1]
History
Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, the Marquis of Cerralbo, opened the place as private gallery in 1893.[2]
After the Spanish State accepted to inherit the collection in 1924, the building opened to students and researchers.[3] The Marquis' collection was split, with a part moved to the National Archaeological Museum and the rest remaining at the building, which was constituted as a proper museum in 1944.[4]
The building was built in the 19th century, according to Italian taste, and it was luxuriously decorated with baroque furniture, wall paintings and expensive chandeliers. It retains to a large extent its original aesthetics.
The building was protected as historical-artistic monument in 1962.[5]
Collection
With more than 24,900 pieces, the original collection featured a large
The exhibited objects consists of items from the personal collections of the Marquis of Cerralbo and the Marquise of Villa-Huerta.[9]
Paintings
The Marquis showed a preference for Spanish and Italian works and religious and portrait paintings.[10] Painting works include works by
Gallery
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Frans Snyders, Porcupines and vipers -
Juan de Espinosa, Life Still with grapes and cakes -
Luis Paret, Seascape with figures
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El Greco, Saint Francis in Ecstasy -
Francisco de Zurbarán, The Inmaculate Conception -
Anton Van Dyck, La Virgen con el niño
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Archaeology
The bulk of the archaeology section consists of the Marquis' numismatics collection.[10]
Decorative arts
The decorative arts section features porcelain pieces, pottery, tapestries, carpets, furniture, lamps and jewellery.[10]
Clocks
The museum also hosts a collection of 18th and 19th-century French and English
References
- Citations
- ^ "History of the museum and its founder". Museo Cerralbo. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ^ Recio Martín & Casas Desantes 2018, p. 327.
- ^ Recio Martín 2017, p. 1764.
- ^ Ortega López & Collado Moreno 2018, p. 603.
- 20minutos.es. 14 December 2010.
- ^ Recio Martín 2017, p. 1766.
- ^ Recio Martín 2017, pp. 1766–1767.
- ^ Saiz Peña, Elena (2012), Comercio de lujo en la antigua China: una campana de bronce esmaltada (PDF), Museo Cerralbo, p. 4
- ^ Granados Ortega 2012, p. 19.
- ^ a b c Granados Ortega 2012, p. 20.
- ^ Granados Ortega 2012, p. 21.
- Bibliography
- Recio Martín, Rebeca C. (2017). "El Museo Cerralbo y el coleccionismo decimonónico" (PDF). Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional. 35. Madrid: ISSN 2341-3409.
- Recio Martín, Rebeca C.; Casas Desantes, Cecilia (2018). "El Museo Cerralbo y la museografía original de sus colecciones arqueológicas" (PDF). V Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Arqueología IV Jornadas de Historiografía SEHA-MAN. Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. pp. 327–342.
- Granados Ortega, M.ª Ángeles (2012). Guía breve. Museo Cerralbo. Madrid. Madrid: ISBN 978-84-8181-516-0.
- Ortega López, David; Collado Moreno, Yolanda (2018). "Arqueoturismo ¿un fenómeno en auge? Reflexiones acerca del turismo arqueológico en la actualidad en España" (PDF). Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural. 16 (3): 599–615. ISSN 1695-7121.
See also
External links
- Official website (in Spanish)
- Cerralbo Museum within Google Arts & Culture
Media related to Museo Cerralbo at Wikimedia Commons
