Museo Nacional de Escultura

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The Museo Nacional Colegio de San Gregorio is a museum of religious sculptures and portraits in Valladolid ( Spain ). Its collection includes works from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century. The museum was officially called the Museo Nacional de Escultura until July 2008 , but it also contains high quality paintings ( Peter Paul Rubens , Francisco de Zurbarán , Luis Eugenio Meléndez ).

history

Alonso Berruguete: Abraham sacrifices Isaac
Palacio de Santa Cruz

The museum is one of the oldest Spanish museums. It was founded in 1842 as the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes . It took on numerous works of art from churches and monasteries, which were dissolved by the liberal regime in 1836. Its first seat was the Palacio de Santa Cruz in Valladolid.

Because of the outstanding quality of its collection, the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts was given the title National Museum in 1933 and was placed under the Ministry of Culture. The historian Ricardo de Orueta , who also initiated the move to the Colegio de San Gregorio , was largely responsible for this .

A comprehensive reorganization and expansion has taken place since 1990. The responsible architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano from Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos received the national monument protection award 2007 ( Premio Nacional de Restauración de y Conservación de Bienes Culturales ) for their work . The museum was reopened on September 18, 2009. It now includes the Colegio de San Gregorio (from the end of the 15th century), the Palacio de Villena and the Palacio del Conde de Gondomar (from 1540), as well as the Church of San Benito el Viejo.

Palacio del Conde de Gondomar, also Casa del Sol

The collections include Jorge Inglés , Rodrigo Alemán , Alejo de Vahía , Rodrigo de Holanda , Diego de Siloé , Felipe Bigarny , Alonso Berruguete , Juan de Juni , Francisco Giralte , Gregorio Fernández , Pedro de Mena y Medrano , Juan Martínez Montañés and Diego Rodríguez .

See also

literature

  • Museo Nacional Colegio de San Gregorio. Colección / Collection. Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid 2009, ISBN 978-84-8181-422-4 . (Ed. Bilingüe, Saint Gregory's College National Museum )
  • Guía. Museo Nacional Colegio de San Gregorio. Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid 2009, ISBN 978-84-8181-435-4 .
  • Ricardo de Orueta: Berruguete y su obra. Madrid 1917. Reprint: Nabu Press u. a., 2010, ISBN 978-1-145-63434-3 .
  • El Museo Crece. Últimas adquisiciones 2005-2010. Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid 2011, ISBN 978-84-8181-484-2 .

Web links

Commons : Museo Nacional de Escultura  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 41 ° 39 '26.9 "  N , 4 ° 43' 25"  W.