Cordoba Information:
MUSEUMS IN CORDOBA |
Cordoba has an abundance of museums which, although of varying merit,
all have the attraction of their own highly personal courtyard, with
intertwining patterns, granite slabs at the sides and a small pebbled
water channel running down the centre. The fronts of the houses show
the inhabitants' passion for cleanliness, as they are regularly whitewashed
and kept spotlessly clean. These labyrinthine streets are the ideal
way to enter into the intimate world of all the museums that are to
be found in Cordoba.
The Fine Art and Julio Romero de Torres museum-galleries are in la
Plaza del Potro, the square of the colt, named after the statue atop
the fountain. The square has two highly singular buildings, the front
of the two museums (a former hospital), and the fourteenth-century
inn, a building full of personality and which until a few decades
ago continued to be used as a hostelry. The square itself, which is
paved with granite slabs and affords a view of the Guadalquivir, was
a centre of vagrants and roguish types, as re counted by Cervantes
and many novels of the picaresque genre.
The Fine Art Museum contains a valuable collection of paintings from
the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, with pictures by early Cordoba
artists, Ribera, Zurbaran and Goya, and a sculpture room dedicated
to the Cordoba master Mateo Inurria. The Julio Romero de Torres Museum
is one of the most frequently visited museums in Spain, due to the
artist's passionate study of Cordoba woman and of the soul of the
city into which he delved so deeply and which he frequently depicted
in an idealistic rather than realistic way. The Archaeology Museum,
which is well signposted throughout the city's historical area, is
surrounded by a beautiful itinerary full of his torical presence.
The museum is presided over by a Renaissance building front that has
deteriorated significantly as a result of the poor quality of the
limestone. The building in which the museum is located includes a
Mudejar house and Roman terraces.
It is one of the prettiest museums in Spain, contains the most important
collection of caliphate remains and has an abundance of Roman, Palaeo-Christian
and Visigothic pieces. The Diocesan Museum has a courtyard of lemons
and bearberries hanging down from the trees like fruit from paradise.
The museum houses collections of Christian art from the Middle Ages
to the present day, the most outstanding of which is the Alonso Fernandez
de Montemayor polyptych, an Italo-Gothic work from the fourteenth
century and one of the most valuable of its kind in Andalusia. |
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