The content of the museum is obviously focused on Sorolla, allowing you to appreciate the details and progression of his work. Sorolla had this house built when he was already a well-known artist and he lived here from 1911 with his wife and eternal muse, ClotildeGarcía del Castillo, and their three children - María Clotilde, Joaquín and Elena.
Both the building and its contents were donated to the Spanish state by the artist's widow, Clotilde García del Castillo, in 1925.. Iberdrola, through its foundation in Spain, has collaborated on several exhibitions in the past few years. A beautiful small museum with an intimate look into Sorolla's family life - both through seeing the dining room just as it was when he lived there and the ceramics he enjoyed collecting scattered about, and also through the museum's collection which contains a lot of family portraits movingly tracing the aging of his wife and children. Whatever he saw is transfigured, showing us how to look through the artist’s eyes to see more and see more clearly. Designed by Enrique María Repullés, it was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1962.
Why the Sorolla Museum is one of my favorite art museums. Since the museum is in Sorolla’s former home, it is relatively small. This move marked the starting point of greater professionalization of the Museum, which was henceforth managed by a curator-director attached to the body of museum curators. Museo Sorolla: THE SOROLLA MUSEUM - See 6,358 traveler reviews, 3,003 candid photos, and great deals for Madrid, Spain, at Tripadvisor.
The Sorolla Museum Foundation continues to operate and work closely with the Museum.© Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte - Gobierno de EspañaEsta web utiliza cookies propias para facilitar la navegación y cookies de terceros para obtener estadísticas de uso y satisfacción.Since then, the Sorolla Museum has been a state-owned museum managed directly by the Ministry of Culture (now the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport).The definitive change in the legal status of the Foundation and Museum was brought about in 1993 on implementation of Royal Decree 1386/1993, of 30 July.
In 1941 it reopened with a new Board of Trustees, chaired this time by the Director General for Fine Arts. Sorolla Museum is a museum on USEUM.
The Hispanic Society’s Museum is closed for extensive renovations.During this period the Sorolla Vision of Spain Gallery and the Library will open on a limited basis, by appointment only.For more information and to book a tour to visit the Sorolla Vision of Spain Gallery, please click here.Please contact the Library at oldbooks@hispanicsociety.org. As a result, you can easily cover all of the museum without feeling rushed or overwhelmed. The Civil War interrupted the operation of the Museum, and the Board was suspended by decree in 1936. The Sorolla Museum is located in the house of the artist Joaquín Sorolla, who was born in Valencia in 1863. The Museum’s director was Joaquín Sorolla y García, the artist’s son. Article 2 of the aforementioned Decree states that “the Sorolla Museum, as a state-owned museum under the Department of State Museums of the Directorate-General for Fine Arts and Archives of the Ministry of Culture, shall be governed by the Regulation on State-owned Museums and the Spanish Museum System approved by Royal Decree 620/1987, of 10 April.” The same article repealed the Museum’s previous Regulation (1932).In 1973 (by Ministerial Order of 26 April) the Board was changed again, although the Chairman continued to be the Director General for Fine Arts and the family remained members of the Board; the Museum was incorporated (by MO of 27 April) into the now-defunct National Museums Board of Trustees.
Museo de Historia de Madrid - Opening Hours Price and Location Sorolla himself said “I always paint with my eyes”, and indeed so he does. It features work by the artist Joaquín Sorolla.
In 2009, after spending 2 days at the breathtaking Sorolla exhibition at the Prado, I decided to set up this site in the hope that it would enable others the chance to get to know more about the life and work of Joaquin Sorolla - a man whom I believe was possibly history’s greatest painter. After the artist’s death in 1923, his family donated the house and its collections to the State and it opened as a museum in 1932.