Rodríguez Acosta Foundation

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Talking about Rodríguez-Acosta is talking about apainter who represents Granada cultureat the beginning of the 20th century. Thanks to his family's economic position, he developed painting with greater freedom. Will study in his native Granada and in Madrid, also traveling to Paris or Venice, where he will participate. at an international exhibition in the Italian city. From 1915 onwards he focused on the construction of his Carmen, which would serve him well. as a painting studio once it is completed; highlighting, among others, his production of ultimately unfinished symbolist nudes. With the death of the author in 1941, the foundation little by little consolidated itself as aninstitution for the dissemination and promotion of culture that reached to have a residency for artists until 2011. Carmen itself It is a modernist building, where we find the symbolism of its iconography, as well as such as objects of Renaissance, Hispano-Muslim or Baroque styles. Its library in art deco houses collections of philosophy or travel literature , paints, enamels or rugs.

Since 1982, the Rodríguez-Acosta foundation connects its gardens with the building of the Gómez Moreno Institute. Manuel Gómez- Moreno, famous archaeologist of the 20th century, was responsible for great advances in the knowledge of Iberian archeology, as well as as in the preparation of monumental catalogs of Ávila or León. Part of his life was dedicated to to higher education at the old University of Madrid or to the Artistic Treasure Board: responsible for the transfer of the Prado Museum collections. /strong> to Switzerland during the Spanish Civil War. After his death, his family decided to donate his collection to the Rodríguez-Acosta Foundation in 1973. The Gómez Moreno Institution is currently dedicated to research in Archeology and Art History ,like this as well as the dissemination and exhibition of the collection among other functions. Its headquarters, together with the foundation, are consolidated in a rational building with an exhibition hall, the Venus patio and a formal balance with its surroundings.

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December 25 and January 1.

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Old Carmen (typical Granada house with orchard and garden) by the Spanish painter José María Rodríguez-Acosta, intended as the artist#39s pictorial studio and which has an art deco decoration library em>. The cultural foundation created by the painter will become He took charge of the property from 1941 and, after the death of the archaeologist Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez, it will house the the documentary collection of both Granada personalities since 1973. The newGómez Moreno Institute will have with its own building since 1982, connected to the foundation through the Carmen gardens.

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