AurigaCrown Car Hire offers their clients ideas on different events and places to visit during their stay in Spain. In this article some insights into Valencia and the exposition on the golden age of Portuguese painting.
The exposition ¨Primitive. The golden age of Portuguese painting. 1450-1550¨ aims to raise awareness for Portuguese painting on canvas of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The exhibition includes a selection of 48 works from various collections of the neighbouring country, among which are some of the most beautiful altarpieces of the period, along with other less known works.
At this exposition, we witness the birth of the modern Portuguese art at its most original expression: oil painting on canvas. In the Age of the Discoveries, these artists were able to translate - with high technical quality and visual inventiveness full of charm - this new world of adventures and conquests, in which Portugal interrupts the international panorama with unprecedented energy.
Masters like Nuno Gonçalves, Graô Vasco, Jorge Afonso or Cristóvão de Figueiredo elaborated mostly religious themes. But although describing heaven or hell, their stories are found in earthly scenes inhabited by humanity. Their richness is driven by the narrative fantasy, the realism of the faces and the taste for anecdotes, offal, objects, ornaments ...
Organized by the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon and the Museum Association of San Gregorio, it is a reference exhibition as it is the first time that the early Portuguese are presented outside their own country.
We can enjoy this exposition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia, an excellent selection of these paintings of our neighbouring country. Of course here we can also see the museum´s exceptional collection of Gothic and Renaissance paintings from Valencia. We must not forget also that much of the period covered by this amazing exposition, titled ¨The golden age of Portuguese painting 1450-1550¨ is exactly the period of greatest cultural wealth in our history, both in the arts and literature, also known as "The Valencian Golden Age".
It is a unique opportunity to directly compare differences and similarities between what was done in both kingdoms or collate the various sources of influence from other cultures, you will surely discover new and interesting aspects looking from a scientific point of view .
Dates: 2 November 2011 - January 8, 2012
Venue: Museo de Bellas Artes Pio V Valencia, Sala Joanes
San Pio V, 9 - 46010 Valencia
Curators: Jose Alberto Seabra Carvalho (deputy director of the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon) and Joaquim Oliveira Caetano (painting conservative National Ancient Art Museum of Lisbon)
Organized by: Ministry of Culture. Generalitat Valenciana
Organized by: Ministry of Culture. Generalitat Valenciana
Apart from the exposition there is of course a lot more to enjoy in and around Valencia: the beaches, nature parks, the old city centre, more musuems, etc. All is within easy reach with your rental car. AurigaCrown Car Hire conveniently has an office directly at Valencia airport, reserve your car with us and enjoy this great tournament and the surroundings of Valencia.
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