Blog Museum Foundation Cajasol Seville

Seville is a city with an endless catalog of monumental and artistic heritage. Given this fact, and while watching the bet is being done in the city to this area with the aim of increasing both foreign and indigenous cultural tourism, the foundation Cajasol finally take out the creation of a museum in the building hearing on the historic old San Francisco, the heart of the city.

Museum in Old Hearing his art collection

Specifically, go to the museum an entire wing of this great historic building, which is about 3,000 m2 to expose much of the 4,000 pieces from the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries that integrate art collection of the foundation, which is to become a museum of reference to par with other museums such as the Archaeological Fine Arts. On the unique pieces that the public can admire sampled Baroque Teachers Cajasol Foundation collection, paintings by Valdés Leal, Alonso Cano, Francisco de Zurbarán and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Many were acquired in the auctions conducted by Art, Information and Management, a firm owned by Cajasol. This is the case of Jesus at the Pillar, shown for the first time to the public after restoration in the workshops of Juan Luis Coto. This oil painting of the seventeenth century, "total exponent of the artist's mature stage," the curator, Joaquín Solis, surprised by its anatomical domain and the drama of the scene, which emphasizes the alternation of light and shadow.