The Museum of Fine arts in Seville is said to be the most important painting gallery in Spain after the Prado Museum. The building of the said Art Museum in Seville was a Mercy convent renewed in 17th century. Inside the Museum were the fifteenth exhibition room shows the “comprehensive pictures of the Sevillanos from the Gothic period to the early trends of the 20th century.
Those extensive complex intertwining halls and beautiful gardens inspired from the 13th century was a work of the most famous painter in Spain. The great El Greco, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Valdez, Leal and Esteban Murillo the pride of Seville city were those people who work for the master piece of arts shown in fifteenth exhibit rooms of the Fine arts Museum in Seville.
Aside from the work of those great painters in Spain were pieces from the middle ages to the 20th century that Sevillanos have kept and treasured.
The fine arts Museum of Seville begun in the year 1839 where it is located at Merced Calzada at the Plaza del Museo in Seville city Spain. The said building was an example of Andalusian mannerism of the 17th century. The fine arts Museum of Seville has three patios inside with a gallant spacious stairway.
The first time that the Museum had opened its door for the public was in the year 1841. When this was first open, only the artworks from the monasteries and convent were those of the arts displayed in this Museum. But after several years past until the present years, this has become the best Museum in Spain.
Those impressive collections from the Spanish heritage of ancient great artist were the arts compiled from the medieval to the modern style of arts.
Portrait of Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli by El Greco (circa, 1605); and Saint Ildefonsus Receiving the Chasuble by Velázquez (circa, 1623), a painting filled with great emotions. The Apotheosis of St Thomas Aquinas by Zurbarán is a hallmark is a chronological account of events of Spanish baroque painting; also by Zurbarán is the series from the monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas.
The finely painted Madonna, by Murillo is in the fine arts museum of Seville. The Cigar Makers, by Gonzalo Bilbao (1915) reflects the late 19th century trend for impressionism and social realism. Valdés Leal’s “Hieroglyphs towards the End of Life” (1671-72) are an impressive allegory on life and death in two remarkable paintings found in the Hospital de la Caridad.
The Casa de Pilatos is home to the ceiling fresco “Apotheosis of Hercules” by Pacheco (1640), various paintings by Sebastiano Del Piombo, Pantoja de la Cruz, Carreño de Miranda, Van Loo, Lucas Jordan, and an exquisite bullfighting scene by Goya.
The said museo a formerly old convent of la Merced was built in the 18th century by Juan de Oviedo.
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