UNTIL SUNDAY 2/7 (weekends and holidays)
PALACE OF THE SCALA. Pl. Manises, 3
Sorolla became the painter he was thanks to public money. Con 21 years he earned a pension (“beca”, we would say today) of 3.000 pesetas a year from the Provincial Council of Valencia to go to study in Rome thanks to the painting The scream of the palleter in which Vicent Doménech “El palleter” calls for revolution against the French from the stairs of the Lonja. With this canvas begins a journey that closes with Father Jofre protecting a madman in the streets of Valencia painted on 1887 in Assisi with which Sorolla put the finishing touch to the patronage of the provincial corporation. Sorolla in Rome es an exhibition organized by the Diputació itself so that we can discover that initiatory Sorolla who had not yet made the stain and the mastery of light his own.. You can see the works delivered by the artist to the public body during his Roman period (a nude brought him real headaches) together with undelivered works of the same stage, notes, scenic recreations of Rome and Valencia, two original drawings, and the letter from his patron and future father-in-law, the photographer Antonio García, justifying the delay in the artist's submissions to the Provincial Council. AU
