Blog "Sorolla, a garden to paint"

The painter's passion for the gardens gives life to the exhibition Sorolla a garden to paint, which can be visited until October 15 at CaixaForum Sevilla. Created specifically for Seville, it seeks to reflect the double function that the garden had for Sorolla. On the one hand, the social, as a meeting place with family and friends; And another as a shelter for painting.

"Sorolla had traveled a lot, he knew the Italian gardens, the French ... When he began to think about the garden of his house, he traveled several times to Andalusia and stayed behind in the gardens of the Alcázar and the Alhambra. Its way of garden, "explains Luca de Tena, curator of the exhibition.

VISIT THE EXHIBITION UNTIL THE 15th OCTOBER

With more than 170 works, including paintings, sketches, drawings, tiles, photographs and sculptures coming mostly from the Sorolla Museum, the exhibition brings together the corners of Andalusian monuments shaped by the artist, compared to those of his garden in Madrid You can see how Sorolla copied parts of the Alcazar for the garden of his house.

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