{"id":13413,"date":"2013-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/granda.com\/el-belen-barroco-de-francisco-salzillo-llega-a-madrid\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T10:50:14","slug":"francisco-salzillos-baroque-nativity-scene-arrives-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/el-belen-barroco-de-francisco-salzillo-llega-a-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Salzillo's baroque nativity scene arrives in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considered as <strong>one of the most beautiful nativity scenes <\/strong>ever made, so far I had only been to Madrid twice: <strong>in 1961 at the Museo de Artes Decorativas and in 1998 at the Palacio Real<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a work carried out in the <strong>XVIII century <\/strong>by the <strong>Murcian sculptor Francisco Salzillo<\/strong>. It was commissioned by Jesualdo Riquelme y Fontes to decorate his palace and completed by Roque L\u00f3pez. It is composed of <strong>556 figures <\/strong>of 25-30 centimeters, made of terracotta, wood and cardboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Based on the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke<\/strong>Salzillo tells the story of the <strong>history of the birth of Christ <\/strong>in chronological order, from the Annunciation to the flight from Egypt. Mixing religious scenes with others of costumbrista character, it is a faithful reflection of many of the traditions that portray the society of the 18th century. It is based on the <strong>Neapolitan nativity scene tradition <\/strong>and its elaboration created an authentic school of nativity scenes that has survived in Murcia to this day.<\/p>\n<p>The Nativity Scene was acquired in 1915, when the Marquis of Corvera offered it to the State for purchase. At first it was exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts of Murcia, until in 1958 it became part of the funds of the <strong>Salzillo Museum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong>. The Nativity Scene of Francisco Salzillo. Centrocentro. Plaza de Cibeles s\/n. Admission: 1 \u20ac. Hours: from 10:00 to 20:00 except December 24, 25 and 31 and January 5 6: from 10:00 to 14:00. until February 2, 2014.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considerado como uno de los belenes m\u00e1s bellos jam\u00e1s realizados, hasta ahora s\u00f3lo hab\u00eda estado dos veces en Madrid: en 1961, en el Museo de Artes Decorativas y en 1998, en el Palacio Real. Se trata de una obra realizada en el siglo XVIII por el escultor murciano Francisco Salzillo. Fue realizado por encargo de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[727,728,433,434],"lista_post":[],"class_list":["post-13413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talla-y-retablos","tag-belenes","tag-francisco-salzillo","tag-nacimientos","tag-navidad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17444,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions\/17444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13413"},{"taxonomy":"lista_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lista_post?post=13413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}