Museo de Bellas Artes
While this charming museum owns a few works by most of the major Spanish painters from Ribera and Murillo through Goya, its two primary strengths are Valencian Gothic painting and its collection of major works by the gifted Valencian painter Joaquin Sorolla (1863–1923). The Sorolla collection spans his career from art student years in Rome to some of his final compositions. His Valencian contemporaries José Benlliure and Cecilio Pla are also well represented, as are the so-called Valencian “primitives,” who continued to work in a Gothic style in the 14th and 15th centuries.
While this charming museum owns a few works by most of the major Spanish painters from Ribera and Murillo through Goya, its two primary strengths are Valencian Gothic painting and its collection of major works by the gifted Valencian painter Joaquin Sorolla (1863–1923). The Sorolla collection spans his career from art student years in Rome to some of his final compositions. His Valencian contemporaries José Benlliure and Cecilio Pla are also well represented, as are the so-called Valencian “primitives,” who continued to work in a Gothic style in the 14th and 15th centuries.
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