Gallery of Battles in Viana Palace, Cordoba (Spain)

Gallery of Battles

        Our visit to the Museum-Palace of the Marquis of Viana is almost ended. Behind there are thirteen patios and more than thirty lounges, with a great number ofGallery of Battles collections, masterpieces and archaeological pieces.
        Starting from the Gobelinos Lounge we go on till the last lounge, going round the Court of the Archive, It is the galleries of battles. This gallery receives its name due to four big paintings that hang from its walls, belonging to the sequence of the "Thirty Years War", attributed to the Flamingo artist Pieter Snayers, who was the disciple of Sebastian Vrancx, and the collaborator in different occasions of Peter Paul Rubens, such as the famous and not ended work of "Life of Henry IV" or the collection of the "Tower of the Parada". Snayers concentrated his artistic production in the flamingo aristocracy and as well as the Italian and the spanish ones, being the main topic the battles, like this last case.
        The paintings represent the battles of "Louvaine", "Gueldres", "Saint Omer", and "Thionville", being concentrated on the colours and the meticulousness of the details The collection is composed by a totality of six paintings, the others are into the gallery that leads to the French Bedroom and the Black Bedroom belonging to the Occidental Sector.
        The furniture of the lounge is composed by little banks, tables, chests, armchairs and banks…

Text: J.A.S.C.

Traslated by Sara Moretti