http://www.alifeinvalencia.com Guide to Valencia Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:13:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:53:24 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/ Horacio Silva has confessed that, at the outset, when they proposed to him this exhibition, he had doubts, a thought that is recognized like one of the majors errors of its race because at present it is enchanting to make this sample.
Although the subject of the exhibition is appellant, the trips continue being a constant for this artist. The exhibition houses pictures not only from the trip to China, but also of others. [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:59:49 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/ This exhibition, through high-resolution infrared reflectography shows underlying drawings made before applying layers of colour from a select group of artists, Spanish, Italian and Flemish from the XV and XVI. These great painters of the past were unable to imagine that future researchers would get look at their designs, which reveal the personality of their strokes, full of vigor and beauty.
The study of these drawings, which have remained hidden for so many years  helps determine the tools and painting materials used by artists, [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-city-museum/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-city-museum/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:44:36 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-city-museum/ It houses an archeological collection illustrating the pre-Roman age and the founding of the city, and a part of the municipal art gallery.
The Museo de la Ciudad is a former palace of nobles, currently housing 15th to 20th century art from the collections of the Valencian government and private homes. Almost all of the painting and scupltures are by Valencian artists. Some are good, some are bad, but all are unknown. If you like art you could find this interesting – it is a [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-city-museum/feed/ 1 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/lladro-city-of-porcelain/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/lladro-city-of-porcelain/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:58:10 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/lladro-city-of-porcelain/ In 1953 Juan, José and Vicente Lladró made their first creations in a Moorish furnace built in their own home in Almàssera (Valencia). Using this technique, they developed their artistic interest while working in a tile and crockery factory. These carefully designed pieces already had a special charm that awakened public interest.
By 1955 they begin making sculptures in which a clear influence of the trends of the XVIII century could be observed. These pieces embraced the style and design of former porcelain artists such as Meissen, Sèvres and Capodimonte.
In 1958 Juan, José and Vicente decided to dedicate [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/lladro-city-of-porcelain/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-royal-shipyards/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-royal-shipyards/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:09:24 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-royal-shipyards/ The history of the shipyards goes back many centuries. The King of Aragon, Peter III the Great (1276-1285) in 1284 granted leave to the Consuls of the city to construct a place to build and repair boats and so the Reales Atarazanas, a stunning, spacious gothic style structure was created.
With the continued growth of the port of Valencia it was later recommended there should be a construction of a stable, a place where they could build and repair various ships and would also serve as a naval store. This was agreed on [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-royal-shipyards/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-museum-of-archeology/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-museum-of-archeology/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:01:21 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-museum-of-archeology/ This cultural centre is also quite close to the IVAM museum. This museum is where you will find the valuable pieces found on archaeological excavations undertaken by the Service of Prehistoric Investigation.
It constitutes perhaps one of the finest museographic collections in Spain. Its exhibition halls trace the evolution of Valencians and their instruments from the Palaeolithic to the late Roman era. The cultural center has a shop with a good variety of books [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-museum-of-archeology/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-fine-arts-museum-san-pio-v/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-fine-arts-museum-san-pio-v/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:31:11 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinspain.com/?p=667 It is formed by a great pinacoteca and an ample floor of drawings and engravings, besides sculptures, archaeological pieces, architectonic fragments, decorative photographs and arts. Its history is long and risky, with of ups and downs of all types, in which stages and moments of crisis are laid out, but it always leads [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-fine-arts-museum-san-pio-v/feed/ 1