Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife is an art museum in the city of Santa Cruz on the Spanish island of Tenerife . It is located on Calle José Murphy below the Plaza del Príncipe de Asturias .
history
The museum was founded in 1840 when the municipality of Santa Cruz decided to properly store the flags of the British navy that had been left behind in the attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797) by the British Navy under Rear Admiral Nelson in 1797. The current museum building, built in the classicism style, was designed in 1929 by the architect Eladio Laredo Carranza. It was built on the western part of the property after the former Franciscan monastery of San Pedro Alcántara was demolished .
The collection
In addition to a series of paintings by Dutch painters from the 16th century and other works from European art history up to the 19th century, the museum shows a collection of Canarian artists such as Gaspar de Quevedo, Cristóbal Hernández de Quintana, Juan de Miranda, González Méndez, Valentín Sanz, Francisco Bonnín Guerín, Guillermo Sureda Arbelo, Alfaro, Guezala, Pedro González and Oscar Domínguez
Around 40 of the pictures shown by Flemish masters come from the holdings of the Prado , whose Dutch collection includes around 3,500 objects. One of the main works in the museum is the Nava Grimón Triptych .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alberto Darias Principe: Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Ciudad, Arquitectura y Memoria Histórica 1500–1981 . Tomo I. Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2004, ISBN 84-89350-92-2 , p. 41 f . (Spanish).
- ↑ El estado de las obras del Prado en Bellas Artes despierta dudas
Coordinates: 28 ° 28 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 16 ° 14 ′ 59.3 ″ W.