Ceiling lounge gallery in Viana Palace, Cordoba (Spain)
Ceiling Lounge Gallery
To the Ceiling Lounge precedes the Gallery of the Ceiling, a large row into which we
can find different valuable objects of the palace. From its walls hang paintings representing battle belonging to the Snayers School, of the six that complete the palace, te other four are situated into the Gallery of Battles, as its name says. In this occasion they represent the battles of Galoo and Verrebroek and the Nordlingen battle.
In front of the main balcony of the façade, on a corner, there is a chair of Louis XV, it is a Pompey chair of the XVIII Century. In the left wing there is a wax crayons portrait
made by famous spanish painter Vicente López which represents the King Ferdinand VII, and there is also a board representing the "Crossfix in the Calvary mountain", performed by flemish baroque painter Antoine Van Dick school. In front there are three rugs, three rugs of the Salamanca House in the XVII Century. On a little table there is an Italian meter made in ebony wood, bronze and carey, of the XVIII Century, one of the most repreentative works of the palace.
Then there are other objects that complete the gallery decoration such as: jars, chairs, banks Louis XIII, lamps and braziers..... Besides there are two sculptures made in marble and representing the Monarch Alphonse XIII, a work of the sculptor Mariano Benlliure, or a little but nice Christ of the XVIII Century.
Text: J.A.S.C.
Traslated by Sara Moretti
Art, Culture and Tourism in Cordoba