Hello friends!
It's Friday and we can think of more things to do, getting out of the routine is one of the objectives, we want other plans, and we have to choose...
We have our favorites but sometimes we have to innovate, and this Friday I bring you my last visit to a museum, this week. I do like to visit museums, to learn, disconnect, discover and be inspired... So I share a different experience in #MarketFriday hosted by
And so I went to one of my favorite places, the San Pio V Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia, in Spain, which already stands out from the outside for its beautiful blue dome. But I realized that I didn't take any photos outside, I was walking so habitually and with so much heat (37 degrees) I just wanted to get in quickly, but the dome can also be seen from inside.
This museum is an interesting art gallery with many outstanding works by renowned Spanish, Italian and Flemish artists mainly. This time, my interest was especially to see a new temporary collection that will only be there for a few months by Joaquín Sorolla, the great Valencian painter who came to fascinate the upper classes of New York at the beginning of the 20th century, returns home and this year in an intense way in different exhibitions. Unfortunately, given the expectation and so many visitors, due to security reasons, you couldn't take photos, so I can't show you anything about this one, you would have to come…
But let's share the rest of the museum, so here we go.
Before entering the reception area itself, beautiful sculptures and huge paintings where we see the fight between darkness and light. The light will win. And the beauty that surrounds us too.
We enter the main area, and the entire first area is occupied by a multitude of religious altarpieces with intense colors and golden decorations. I am not going to go into technicalities, dates, authors and other concepts. Let's just admire the works of art.
And we continue further on, to discover a group of Italian "experts", who talked and prepared or analyzed something, who knows if I'll see a documentary later.
But there are great historical works from different centuries and contexts, some impressive and others more humble. Some curious ones like the one with the skull, trying to read the note: “in all the works your new memories and paths without sin” (I am writing this without knowing well INVENTING and without looking at Wikipedia or using a Latin translator, just somehow which evokes me…).
Most of the people gathered elsewhere, so I have enjoyed empty and silent rooms, only the stories in the paintings seemed to want to say something. Many religious elements, faith was intensely embodied in those other times that have been portrayed in a great variety of paintings that we are observing from near and far, all perspectives are impressive. We go from one room to another, as if we were turning the pages of a history book, and there is always more…
But we also look around the surroundings, and we go to a little-visited place, the inner courtyards, where you can go out. But what a temperature contrast with the air conditioning and the insistent heat out there. But the architecture is delicious and the patio area full of vegetation an oasis of peace where we can assimilate everything we have seen.
Before leaving, a typical but modern image of a Valencian woman in traditional dress ("fallera").
And we leave, saying goodbye to Pinazo (a famous painter) and his sculpture that tells us: "Until next time you visit."
