González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts - Valencia, Spain
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González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts is executed in the Rococo style Late Baroque style. It is famous for its Rococo entrance. The museum is located at Carrer del Poeta Querol, 2, València, Spain.
Waymark Code: WMV182
Location: Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Date Posted: 02/06/2017
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The former Palace of the Marqués de Dos Aguas is now the González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts (Museo Nacional de Cerámica y de las Artes Suntuarias González Martí). In 1740 the entire palace was redesigned in the Rococo, Late Baroque style designed by Hipolito Rovira and sculpted in alabaster by Ignacio Vergara. The museum features an especially magnificent doorway.
Relief sculptures of apparently sleeping men flank the entrance. The coat of arms of the Marqués de Dos Aguas is sculpted over the door. At the top is a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus in her left arm. At her feet are a pair of cherubs.