The Segrelles Museum, dedicated to the painter

Josep Segrelles Josep is a Catalan masculine given name equivalent to Joseph (Spanish ''José''). People named Josep include: * Josep Bargalló (born 1958), Catalan philologist and former politician * Josep Bartolí (1910-1995), Catalan painter, cartoonist and ...

, is a culturale site in the city of Albaida,

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, 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, for

Dante Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called ...

's ''Comedy'', for passages in the fifth and ninth symphonies of

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, for tales of ''The Thousand and One Nights'' and other authors such as

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. It includes also other fantasies related to internal human anatomy and the "sidereal" subjects (

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), as well as religious themes.

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