Admiral Bedroom in Viana Palace, Cordoba (Spain)

Admiral Bedroom

        A door with wooden sticks leads us to the gallery linked to the Admiral bedroom, this name was given by the house, in fact, the last of the marquis used to dwell Admiral Bedroomthe admirals, friends of him, there. One of the admirals who sleot there was: Javier de Mendizábal or Pedro Nieto Antúnez.
        In the named gallery, onn the right, we find a door of tabernacle hanged like a painting, with the Resurrection of Christ. Next to it there is an ancient wardrobe of the XVII Century and with mudejar style. On the left there is a table with a porcelain glass and two candlesticks made in polychromated wooden. Then there is the bedroom.
        Of the bedroom we can stand out the bed, of the XIX Century, whose head is decorated with fine rose de bois wood, with the style o the empire, they are flanked by two little night tables of the Queen Annes with cabriole legs. On the bed there is a flamingo board of the XVII Century that represents the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ on MountAdmiral Bedroom Calvary, which was painted by Frans Franken II, and whose works are into the palace.
        In another part of the room there is a little bargueño (cabinet) of the XVI Century, with the architectonic decoration and influenced by the mudejar; on it there is the portrait of Mary of Austria, a copy from the original one of Diego Velázquez. In the middle of the wall ther we is an Italian chest of the XVI Century and on which we find a wonderful image of the XIII Century (the most ancient of the house) which represents Saint Barbara, but it is not conserved. Ehind it there is a brussel rug of the XVI Century, decorated with ecclesiastic and shields decorations.
        The Bathroom, close to the window, keps a table Queen Anne's style, with cabriole legs and, enea chairs and leather banks and a set of english cups.

Text: J.A.S.C.

Traslated by Sara Moretti