National Sculpture Museum (Valladolid)

The Museo Nacional Colegio de San Gregorio is a museum of religious sculptures and portraits in Valladolid (Spain). Its collection includes works from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century. By July 2008, the museum was officially called the Museo Nacional de Escultura, but it also contains paintings of high quality ( Peter Paul Rubens, Francisco de Zurbarán, Luis Eugenio Meléndez ).

History

The Museo Nacional Colegio de San Gregorio is one of the oldest Spanish museums. It was founded in 1842 as the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes. It took numerous works of art from churches and monasteries that were disbanded in 1836 by the liberal regime. His first seat was the Palacio de Santa Cruz of Valladolid.

Due to the outstanding quality of its collection was awarded the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in 1933 the title of National Museum and was subordinated to the Ministry of Culture. The principal reason for this was the historian Ricardo de Orueta, which also prompted the move to the Colegio de San Gregorio.

Since 1990, a comprehensive reorganization and expansion takes place. The competent architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos received for her work with national conservation award 2007 ( Premio Nacional de Restauración de Conservación y de Bienes Culturales ). On September 18, 2009, the museum was reopened. It now includes the Colegio de San Gregorio (from the end of the 15th century ), the Palacio de Villena, and Palacio del Conde de Gondomar ( from 1540 ) and the Church of San Benito el Viejo.

In the collections prominently represented include Jorge Ingles, Rodrigo Alemán, Alejo de Vahia, Rodrigo de Holanda, Diego de Siloé, Felipe Bigarny, Alonso Berruguete, Juan de Juni, Francisco Giralte, Gregorio Fernández, Pedro de Mena y Medrano, Juan Martínez Montanes and Diego Rodríguez.