19th Century Painting

The avant-garde and contemporary art have championed the concept of creative freedom in art, but impressionism was the aesthetic current that originated a break with the precepts of the academy and laid the foundations of an artistic revolution based on color and

From the second half of the 19th century, Valencian art experienced a golden age in which Joaquín Sorolla and his contemporaries initiated the well-known Valencian luminism. A whole generation of artists as heirs of the features and values of this style, who

There are few places in our country that are more surrounded by attraction and mystery as the Palace of San Telmo and its dwellers, the Dukes of Montpensier. These two names have always gone hand in hand with endless gossip and rumors

The creative freedom that has characterized small-format production, allowing artists to deploy a level of technical precision and stylistic experimentation, has given birth to their most intimate and personal creations, whose evocative power manages to move the viewer. In the set of

The introduction of the Nazarene movement in Catalonia found in Claudio Lorenzale one of its great representatives. The historical and social upheavals of the early 19th century led to the emergence of artistic movements which, like the Nazarenes of German Romanticism, invoked

The museum quality of “Danza de odaliscas” reveals the best version of Francisco Pradilla’s orientalist production. The European colonial expansion in North Africa during the 19th century was decisive in the desire of many artists to travel and explore an unknown world.