Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid Facts for Kids

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Museo Nacional de Escultura

View of the main facade (Colegio de San Gregorio)
Established	1842
Location	Colegio de San Gregorio, Valladolid, Spain
Type	Art museum, sculptural museum, Historic site
Visitors	145.606 (2012)

Spanish Property of Cultural Interest
Official name: Museo Nacional de Escultura
Type	Non-movable
Criteria	Monument
Designated	1962
Reference no.	RI-51-0001422

The "National Museum of Sculpture" is a museum in Valladolid, Spain, belonging to the Spanish Ministry of Culture. The museum has an extensive sculptural collection ranging from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. The collections come mostly from churches and monasteries in the Region of Castile, whose pieces of religious art were confiscated by the State in 1836, by order of Minister of Finance Mendizábal. Other parts of the collections come from particular donations, deposits or acquisitions by the State.

The museum was founded as the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts on 4 October 1842. It had its first headquarters at the Palacio de Santa Cruz. On 29 April 1933 it was moved to the Colegio de San Gregorio. Other current seats are in the 16th-century Palacio de Villena and Palacio del Conde de Gondomar

The museum houses works from the 13th to 19th centuries, executed mostly in the Central Spain, and also in other regions historically connected to Spain (Italy, Flanders, Southern America). Artworks include, among the others, a Raising of the Cross by Francisco del Rincon, I Thirst, and The Way of Calvary Gregorio Fernández, Adoration of the Magi by Alonso Berruguete, Lamentation of Christ by Juan de Juni, Penitent Magdalene by Pedro de Mena or the Holy Sepulchre or passage of the Sleepers Alonso de Rozas.

During the Holy Week in Valladolid the museum gives 104 images (distributed in the corresponding pasos) to the processions for the brotherhoods.

Gallery of paintings
Gallery of sculptures
See also

Gallery of paintings

Democritus and Heraclitus by Rubens, 1603
Jan Brueghel - "Tentaciones de San Antonio Abad" - Google Art Project.jpg

Temptations of San Antonio Abad by Jan Brueghel (first half of the 17th century)
Saint Francisco and Saint Domingo in the refectory by Felipe Gil de Mena (second half of the 17th century)

Pity by Pedro Berruguete, 1480
Joanna of Castile, likely by Jacob van Lathem, over 1500
Calvary by Antonio Moro, 1573
The annunciation of Mary by Gregorio Martínez, 1596
Still Life by Luis Egidio Meléndez, 1765
Allegory of the Immaculate Virgin by Juan de Roelas, 1616
Presentation of the Child in the temple by Diego Valentín Díaz, 1650
St. Anthony of Padua by Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, over 1650

Gallery of sculptures

Medieval sculptures

The Virgin with the child, anonymous, Castilian workshop, finally of the 13th century.

15th century

Pity, anonymous (made in Germany), 1406-1415.
Funerary Portrait of Luis Pimentel y Pacheco, anonymous, Lion workshop, 15th century.
Altarpiece of the Virgin's life, anonymous, Antwerp workshop, over 1515.
Bust of emperor Charles, young, anonymous, Flemish workshop, over 1520.
Altarpiece of St. Jerome by Jorge Inglés.