The Delegate of Culture, Susana Rivas, presented 'Those people who were worth so much. The faces of the peseta', a new exhibition that brings the peseta back to the present, after twenty years without it.
Kings, of course, but not alone. Politicians and soldiers too. Even the world of art and culture in general brought us closer. Thus, if one took the trouble to read -those who had access to the ticket and to reading- one ended up putting faces to characters of whom one had heard of... or not.
Seneca, Alfonso X, Cisneros, The Catholic Monarchs, Christopher Columbus, The Great Captain, Juan Sebastián Elcano, Hernán Cortés, Juan Luis Vives, Carlos I -and, in another ticket, two for one, as V of Germany-, Felipe II, Juan Herrera, Cervantes, Álvaro de Bazán, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, Velázquez, Calderón de la Barca, Murillo, Alonso Cano, Carlos III, Celestino Mutis, Jovellanos, Goya, Vicente López, Manuel José Quintana, Jaime Balmes, Mendizábal, Zorrilla, Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Pérez Galdós, Leopoldo Alas Clarín, Falla, Albéniz, Zuloaga, Sorolla, Juan Ramón Jiménez, among others.
This exhibition is about them, in which, together with the thread of the banknotes, a series of various pieces -paintings, engravings, books, documents, etc...- highlight milestones of our History, of two thousand years of History, from Seneca to the 20th century itself.
Given the obvious didactic interest of this exhibition, the Museum will offer it in a special way to the educational centers of the city during the three months of opening to the public, from December 14 of this year until March 19 of next year.
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