Lounge of Gobelinos in Viana Palace, Cordoba (Spain)

Lounge of Gobelinos

        Not less interesting that the Goya Lounge is the Gobelinos Lounge, whose name Lounge of Gobelinosis given because a manufacture made under the kingdom of Louis XIV, and it is situated in the Paris suburb of Saint Michel, from this manufacture all the rugs here exposed. All them are part of an original collection of eight rugs denominated: "The New Indias", that reproduces other paintings by Albert Eckhout, given to the French crown in 1678 by the Prince of Orange Mauricio from Nassau. The rugs represent: "Fruits recollectors", "The Indian hunter", "The fight among animals" and "The transportation of the sugar cane". The themes represented are human allegories, animals or vegetable of the New worldLounge of Gobelinos, all wrapped into a thick and exulting vegetation all where the light plays an important role.
        Despite the great quality of its works the lounge is not big and because of the rugs you can not appreciate a good perspective of it and you can not see them as well as they deserve. Under the named rugs we find a totality of four banks and other eight little banksof the similar characteristics, with a new baroque style and upholstered with beige clothes. The decoration is completed by a beauty oriental rug put on the floor.
        Then we go back to the Goya Gallery, in front of the mentioned "Portrait of the Monarch Charles III" which has an entrance to the last of the lounges of our visit, the known Gallery of the Battles.

Text: J.A.S.C.

Traslated by Sara Moretti