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Granada Fine Arts Museum

The museum occupies the first floor of the Palace of Charles V, within the Alhambra complex, and shares the building with the Alhambra Museum. It opened on this site on 6 October 1958; its origins lie in the nineteenth-century confiscations of Church property, which brought the art of the convents to the city. You can enter without an Alhambra ticket. The permanent collection, of about 2,000 pieces, is arranged in four blocks: Renaissance and Mannerism, Granada Baroque, nineteenth-century Granada painting, and the early decades of the twentieth century up to the avant-garde. Religious painting from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries predominates. Key works include Juan Sánchez Cotán's Still Life with Cardoon, Pedro Machuca's Resurrection of Lazarus, dated around 1519-1521, a Penitent St Jerome by Alonso Cano and wooden sculptures by Jacopo Torni and Pedro de Mena.

Things to do at Granada Fine Arts Museum: 4 missions

• Find a wooden carving by Pedro de MenaWalk through the Granada Baroque rooms until you come across a wooden sculpture by Pedro de Mena.
• Find Machuca's Resurrection of LazarusLook for the work by Pedro Machuca, from around 1519-1521, and observe the Roman-inspired architecture that appears in the scene.
• Find Alonso Cano's Penitent St JeromeFind Alonso Cano's oil painting and compare how it portrays the saint in the desert with other religious works in the room.
• Find Sánchez Cotán's Still Life with CardoonLocate Sánchez Cotán's still life and look at the cardoon and carrots on a window ledge and at the light that picks them out against the background.

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Source: Web oficial - Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada