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This is one of the most impressive settings I've seen in a long time. The crystal palace is modelled after the same sort of structure in Kew Gardens in London but of course much smaller. It's empty though. I suppose they use it for exhibitions but nothing was happening inside while I was there. The jet d'eau is reminiscent of Geneva's but also on a much smaller scale. Nevertheless the peace and tranquility of this setting was awesome.. a nice break from the hectic pace of Madrid's big bustling streets and only minutes away from them all.
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enricarchivell: #madrid #sculpture #ripollés
acastella: Esta escultura del mismo autor que la escultura del Aeropuerto de Castellón, ¿Verdad?
enricarchivell: @acastella si! Puse la foto porque estaba de actualidad!
in his first solo exhibition in spain, artist petrit halilaj has transformed madrid’s palacio de cristal into a giant nest of massive flowers. the artist has connected the temporary installation with the city’s retiro park by opening windows, setting up structures, and placing feeding areas to attract the birds and other creatures inhabiting or passing through the park. ‘to a raven and the hurricanes which bring back smells of humans in love from unknown places’ is the first show inaugurated by the museo reina sofía since its closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which interrupted the montage of the exhibition.
Palacio de Cristal del Retiro
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Palacio de Cristal
The Palacio de Cristal ("Glass Palace") is a conservatory located in Madrid's Buen Retiro Park. It was built in 1887 on the occasion of the Exposition of the Philippines, held in the same year, then a Spanish colonial possession. The architect was Ricardo Velázquez Bosco.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Buen_Retiro,_Madrid
The Palacio de Cristal, in the shape of a Greek cross, is made almost entirely of glass set in an iron framework on a brick base, which is decorated with ceramics. Its cupola makes the structure over 22 metres high. When it was erected, glass and iron construction on a large scale was already to be seen in Madrid at Delicias station (1880), the work of a French architect. However the curved architecture of the Palacio de Cristal is more comparable to the techniques pioneered by the British architects Joseph Paxton (who was responsible for London's Crystal Palace) and Decimus Burton (who was responsible for the Palm House at Kew Gardens).
The cast-iron frame was manufactured in Bilbao.[1] The structure was designed in a way that would allow it to be re-erected on another site (as happened to the equivalent building in London). However, the building has remained on the original site, next to a lake, and has been restored to its original appearance. It is no longer used as a greenhouse, and is currently used for art exhibits.[2]
Use
The Crystal Palace belongs to the Reina Sofía Museum, and is one of its exposition centres together with Velázquez Palace
International MBA Students enjoy a trip to Madrid's largest park, Retiro, a stone's throw from IE Business School and at the heart of Madrid.
International MBA Students enjoy a trip to Madrid's largest park, Retiro, a stone's throw from IE Business School and at the heart of Madrid.
Ayer me di cuenta de que vivo en una nube. No son como la del resto, blancas y diseminadas en el cielo, no. La mía tiene un color.
Vosotros, nosotros, ellos...Nuestra "realidad" es bien diferente. Tuvo que venir el verano con sus cielos despejados para darme cuenta de esta vaga ilusión. "Sopló y sopló y las nubes disipó". Cliché de un cuento de cerdos y lobos con piel de oveja...
Y ella me dijo que era la nueva moda: un no sé qué de "anticuados" y algo más sobre no haber motivo para enfadarse. ¿Cómo no puede haberlo si no hay nada en lo que apoyarse sobre seguro?
A propósito de mi nube: salto en esa esponjosidad amarilla. La llamaban Kinton. Va tomando altura en este cielo desnudo, con un sol cansado, riéndose de los corazones puros.
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International MBA Students enjoy a trip to Madrid's largest park, Retiro, a stone's throw from IE Business School and at the heart of Madrid.
La iglesia de San Manuel y San Benito está situada en la calle de Alcalá, en frente del Parque del Retiro y fue construida entre 1902 y 1910. Los mecenas de esta iniciativa fueron el empresario catalán Manuel Caviggioli y su esposa Benita Maurici, que donaron generosamente el terreno para este fin y de los que la iglesia toma su advocación. Dicha obra fue encargada al arquitecto Fernando Arbós y Tremanti
La iglesia de San Manuel y San Benito es el mejor ejemplo de la arquitectura neobizantina madrileña. Tiene una planta centralizada de cruz griega, con una gran cúpula sobre pechinas donde se representan simbólicamente los cuatro evangelistas. En su interior destaca una capilla lateral “de la Epístola”, con un altar de mármol blanco en el centro y los dos sepulcros del matrimonio catalán en los lados. De su fachada, destaca la torre, erigida al modo de los campaniles italianos.
"Toile de Jouy 1969-1973"
'Miralda. De gustibus non disputandum' on display at the Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid, June 24 - October 17, 2010.
www.museoreinasofia.es/exposiciones/2010/miralda_en.html
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Miralda’s story begins in Spain in the Sixties during his military service in the universitary militias under Franco’s dictatorship. His drawings of that period, heavily charged with caustic humour, obsessively analyse movements, military tactics and notions of good and evil. Leaping from paper to object, his soldiers — white plastic miniatures — soon invaded all his work: photos, frottages-collages, posters, furniture, cupboards, tables, chairs, walls and the streets of Paris where, from 1962, he lived, when not stationed in army camps. In 1972, he made París. La Cumparsita with Benet Rossell, a film about the adventures of a great soldier searching for his pedestal in the streets and public squares of the city. This is also the period of his Soldats-Soldés (Bargain Soldiers), Dibujos geométricos (Geometric Drawings), Essais d’amélioration (Improvement Essays), Toile de Jouy, his Cenotaphs — those public, tourist monuments to generals — and Cendriers-tombeaux (Ashtray-Tombs).
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International MBA Students enjoy a trip to Madrid's largest park, Retiro, a stone's throw from IE Business School and at the heart of Madrid.
This rose garden was laid out in 1915 by Cecilio Rodríguez, head gardener for the city, modeled after one in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. The idea was pushed my the Mayor of Madrid, Carlos Prats. Here at the entrance, a statue of the Marquis of Salamanca was moved; It "disappeared" during the Civil War; The Rosaleda suffered other damage as well.
Another "rosaleda" was created in 1956 in the Parque del Oeste, organized more botanically than for aesthetic purposes as this one had been. (info- Wikipedia en Espanol)
La Rosaleda
Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid
October 2011
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International MBA Students enjoy a trip to Madrid's largest park, Retiro, a stone's throw from IE Business School and at the heart of Madrid.
La Puerta de Felipe IV de los Jardines del Retiro de Madrid (España) da a la calle de Alfonso XII, situada frente al Casón del Buen Retiro.
Esta puerta de estilo barroco siempre se ha considerado levantada en 1690 para la entrada de Mariana de Neoburgo, segunda esposa de Carlos II, pero realmente no es así, tal como se pudo demostrar en 1990.
Efectivamente es obra de Melchor Buenas tal como se venía diciendo, pero se levantó en 1680 para servir de arco de entrada a María Luisa de Orleáns, primera esposa de Carlos II, que hizo su entrada pública en Madrid el 13 de enero de 1680.
Originariamente la puerta se encontraba en la Carrera de San Jerónimo, en donde hoy se haya la Plaza de Cánovas del Castillo (Neptuno), ya que por entonces y hasta mitad del siglo XIX hasta allí se extendía el Parque del Buen Retiro.
Labrada en piedra de Tamajón y con adornos escultóricos de Pedro de Landa. En 1690 se añadieron las esculturas que adornan los laterales del arco, uno de Marte y el otro de Penélope, así como una Fortuna (hoy desaparecida) en el trasdós del arco obra de Pedro Mentinoves; destinada a la entrada de Mariana de Neoburgo. Fue entonces cuando se colocó la inscripción de la segunda esposa de Carlos II y la fecha de 1690 que ha dado pie a la confusión durante tanto tiempo.
En 1857 se trasladó a la bajada de los Jerónimos y finalmente en 1922 se colocó donde se encuentra actualmente.
Another statue at the base of the Monument to Alfonso XII built in 1902. For that generation this one must have been pretty risqué... kinda cool though :)
International MBA Students enjoy a trip to Madrid's largest park, Retiro, a stone's throw from IE Business School and at the heart of Madrid.
International MBA Students enjoy a trip to Madrid's largest park, Retiro, a stone's throw from IE Business School and at the heart of Madrid.
Expected like the Messiah, here is the first planned roll out of my Mamiya, with the the old fashioned (technology) Shanghai GP3 film developed at home in Caffenol (C-H 9 min 21ºC). Some Retiro needed to appear in the 15 frames… Love it!
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Attendu comme le Messie, voilà le premier rouleau prévu avec ma Mamiya, avec le film vieux jeu (technologie) Shanghai GP3 développé au Caffenol (C-H, 21ªc, 9min). Un bout de Retiro devait apparaître. J'adore !
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Tan esperado como el Mesías, lo que estaba planeado, el primer carrete de mi Mamiya, con carrete Shanghai GP3 a lo antiguo (tecnología) revelado en Caffenol (C-H, 9 min 21ºC). Algo del Retiro debía de estar en los 15 fotograbas. ¡Me encanta!