Sorolla

... at lunch, my good friend, Ron, and I walked to the Museo Sorolla.  It is a museum of the works of the painter Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, 1863-1923.  The museum is in his old house.  It is just a few blocks from the embassy. This was also ...

... (especially in Granada and Sevilla).  I would highly, highly recommend the museum if you like twentieth century art, for Sorolla is definitely the most famous Spanish painter of the past century. Afterwards, we took the metro to Sol and tried ...

... it was so cold and windy out that to keep from crying as the pain shot through our ears, we went inside).  The Sorolla Museum houses the collection of a single artist, Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, in his old house in Madrid.  The house itself is a ...

... (the paintings are normally kept in New York).  The huge murals, each completed in about a month's time, was amazing, in Sorolla's characteristic style of using light and color to make images and feelings come alive.  I felt that the paintings ...

... ; This morning I got up somewhat early and headed out to the Sorolla Museum.  It is the former house of the painter Joaquin Sorolla.  After his death, his wife converted the house into a museum.  The museum is a gem.  Unlike my dash ...

... Fallen/where Franco is buried, two floors of the Reina Sofia (Modern Art Museum and my personal favorite, even though I enjoy the Prado), Sorolla Museum, and many, many more, I think.  As for the rest of my plans, the Alyssa Summer Tour dates have ...

... in several places, with fenced-off areas) then the Museo de Bellas artes, where we saw just the special exhibit on Sorolla. That evening (after tapas at Alfalfa, again) we went off to the "Teritorias Sevilla," a week long music festival in ...

... dish that was very good.    Sunday, I had an intense dose of culture. In the early afternoon I went to el Museo Sorolla which was two blocks from where I was staying. It was a smaller museum which used to be this painter's mansion and is now ...

... Paul Dardé Gustav Klimt Jean Béraud Geoffrey Jean Prince Paul Troubetzkovy Emile Friant Henri Gervex Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Luigi Nono Eugène Burnand Abram Iefimovich Arkhipov Leonid Pasternak Jacob Maris George Hendrik Breitner ...

... .jpg The Naked Maja- Goya http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Goya_The_Naked_Maja.jpeg Children on the Beach- Sorolla http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/140620/1/Children-On-The-Beach,-1910.jpg Onions- Renoir ...