Goya Lounge of Viana Palace, Cordoba (Spain)
Goya Lounge
This lounge was characterized for having a neoclassical decoration, this is not a
room full of objects but there is a clear harmony with the colours and the styles of the pieces of furniture.
The lounge has a white skirting board with geometrical decorations, made with triangles and octagons, framed by fine mouldings in gold. The walls are made in gypsum and it is divided into three rectangles, in the lateral sides there is a rhomb shape in the middle. Decorated with palms and acanto earrings. The central rectangle has two circle in the lateral sides, in whose middle there are vaults, from which the lamps hang. These lamps are made in crystal style Empire Crystal and in bronze coming from La Granja.
The lounge receives the name due to the Goya rugs hanged on the walls, with a common theme, which represent the scenes relate to Madrid, such as: "The military and the Lady", "The Acerolera", "The Stilts", "Children playing on a seesaw". But there are also other examples by José del Castillo such as: "The bollera of the fountain in Saint Vincent Door" or "Hunter drinking from a boot with a montero". Or the ones belonging to Ramon Vayeu: "Dance men from that place" and "Civilians singers" or "Civilians smoking" by
Teniers. There is a complex of nine rugs, all made in the Real Fábrica de Santa Barbará the XVIII Century.
To stand out the paintings, it is important to remember the "Portrait of Charles IV" attributed to Goya, but it is not sure. Two anonymous portraits representing Philip V and Alphonse XII.
According to the romantic ambient given by the rugs there is the furniture, composed by XVIII Century pieces and Empire style: eight armchairs Charles IV, a sofa and eight oval banks. Very interesting is the English Sheraton bureau with a desk, a show window of Charles IV made in rose de bois and a chest with silver handles, on it a porcelain clock of the Buen Retiro.
Text: J.A.S.C.
Traslated by Sara Moretti
Art, Culture and Tourism in Cordoba