The Segrelles Museum, dedicated to the painter
Josep Segrelles, is a culturale site in the city of
Albaida Bayda may refer to:
Places
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,
Province of Valencia, in Spain.
After living and working in
Barcelona and New York, Segrelles decided to take up residence in his hometown in 1932. In 949, basing on designs made during his stay in the United States, he began to build what would later become his house-museum, where he lived and painted until his death on 3 March 1969.
This house-museum houses a large retrospective collection of the artist, from early works including family portraits, to his posthumous oil ''The Pentecost''.
In the museum there are also illustrations for novels of
Blasco Ibáñez Blasco is a surname which roots can be found it in Aragon, more specifically in the Jaca's mountains.
People
* Blasco de Garay, Spanish navy captain and inventor
* Blasco de Grañén, Aragonese painter
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, for
Dante's ''Comedy'', for passages in the fifth and ninth symphonies of
Beethoven, for tales of ''The Thousand and One Nights'' and other authors such as
Edgar Allan Poe,
H. G. Wells,
Miguel de Cervantes. It includes also other fantasies related to internal human anatomy and the "sidereal" subjects (
astronomy), as well as religious themes.
See also
*
Josep Segrelles
*
Route of the Valencian classics
The Route of the Valencian classics, (in Valencian ''Ruta dels clàssics valencians'', in Spanish ''Ruta de los clásicos valencianos''), is a cultural route Source: Valencia Terra i Mar. Diputación de ValenciaLa Ruta dels Clàssics.. through ...
External links
Segrelles Museum
Museums in Albaida
Art museums and galleries in Spain
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