The next time you walk through the Santa Clara Museum of Gandia, do not pass these figures by. Look closely. They are rare survivors of a pi...

This exquisite pendant, now held in the Museum of Gandia, is a striking example of early modern European goldsmithing, dating to around 1600...

I am particularly struck by the composition and spatial distancing of the figures in Pierrot and Colombina, where the careful interplay betw...

IN 1901, PABLO PICASSO was barely twenty years old, brilliant, ambitious, and already restless. He had left Spain to chase success in Paris...

DURING THE PERIOD of the great Valencian painter and humanist Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), children's health and social problems were an...

El Beso by Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes, a painting that captures all the warmth, tradition, and storytelling of the costumbrista style.

WHEN I AM taking participants on my walking class around the old town of Xàbia (Jávea Historical Walk), I often remember to tell them about ...

In the summer of 1907, Joaquín Sorolla moved with his entire family to La Granja de San Ildefonso, where he had been commissioned to paint a...

  “The Cry of Palleter ” 1884, oil on canvas,  152 x 202 cm. Valencia Provincial Council. AT THE CENTRO CULTURAL BANCAJA in Valencia, I foun...

RECENTLY, when I was at a fabulous art show in Valencia, I got to witness up close the grandeur of a social realist and luminous painting by...

WHEN I WAS IN VALENCIA recently, I went to an art show where I discovered these magnificent vintage posters. It was the first time I learned...

  On a sun-drenched day with just the right touch of breeze, the Royal Marsh of Gandia offered an ideal setting for a tranquil day trip fill...