Saavedra Gallery in Viana Palace, Cordoba (Spain)

The Saavedra Gallery

        Popularly it is knwn as the Arms Lounge, this is a little lounge, with The Saavedra Galleryrectangular shape, and it is dedicated to the Saavedra Dinasty, and it receives the name because of the six paintings dedicated to the Saavedra family, that are exposed in the left wall of the lounge. The portraits are all made with complete body and next there are swords which belonged to them. Totally there are 34 pieces.
        Four big brass plates complete the decoration of the walls. Among the pieces of forniture there is a central table, put on four legs, with lyre shape, and on it we can find three beautiful decorative pieces. At the bottom we find a beautiful carved chest in the year 1630, decorated with the anagram of the Jesus Company, and its function was to keep there different attires used in the religious ceremonies, in fact it is a piece of the tabernacle. On the chest there is a collection of swords with its folders, disposed like a fan with red velvetThe Saavedra Gallery.
        The forniture of the lounge is completed with Louis XIV banks of the XVIII Century and one chair with arms of the XVII Century. The banks are little plain banks, upholstered and without back, used normally in living rooms; the two have lyre legs linked and upholstered in grey. The chair with arms or the monk armchair is a characteristic Spanish piece of forniture, presenting the use of leather in the seat and in the back.
        Close to the Courtyard of the Chapel, which receives the light through plain white windows, which frames a roman head, whereas the other frames the marble white pile on a column.


Text: J.A.S.C.

Traslated by Sara Moretti