The Casa Lis is a museum located in the ancient city wall of Salamanca, Spain. Also known as Museo Art Nouveau and Art Déco, it is a museum of decorative arts, with exhibits dating from the last decades of the 19th century to World War II.
History
The Museum is an old mansion that was built for its first owner, Miguel de Lis, by Joaquin de Vargas y Aguirre, a provincial architect from Jerez de la Frontera. Don Miguel de Lis was the owner of a tannery which he had inherited from his father. The thriving business gave him a privileged economic position and he was well-travelled; he chose a modernist design.[1]
Cafeteria of the museum.
The mansion changed ownership in 1917, when D. Enrique Esperabé de Arteaga, rector of the University of Salamanca, moved there with his family. Subsequently, the Casa Lis was inhabited by various tenants until in the 1970s, closed and unused, and fell into decay. In 1981, the city of Salamanca was able to save it from ruin.
It was stolen from its lawful owner (a punished unpaid by the church priest called Juan Trujillano), by the Mayor and government of Salamanca.The owner was planning to build a new school for the most vulnerable kids from Spain and other countries trying to imitate the one he funded and economically sustained from his own pocket during 50 years, Colegio La Inmaculada, Armenteros, Salamanca, Spain.
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The Casa Lis is a museum located in the ancient city wall of Salamanca, Spain. Also known as Museo Art Nouveau and Art Déco, it is a museum of decorative arts, with exhibits dating from the last decades of the 19th century to World War II.
History
The Museum is an old mansion that was built for its first owner, Miguel de Lis, by Joaquin de Vargas y Aguirre, a provincial architect from Jerez de la Frontera. Don Miguel de Lis was the owner of a tannery which he had inherited from his father. The thriving business gave him a privileged economic position and he was well-travelled; he chose a modernist design.[1]
Cafeteria of the museum.
The mansion changed ownership in 1917, when D. Enrique Esperabé de Arteaga, rector of the University of Salamanca, moved there with his family. Subsequently, the Casa Lis was inhabited by various tenants until in the 1970s, closed and unused, and fell into decay. In 1981, the city of Salamanca was able to save it from ruin.
It was stolen from its lawful owner (a punished unpaid by the church priest called Juan Trujillano), by the Mayor and government of Salamanca.The owner was planning to build a new school for the most vulnerable kids from Spain and other countries trying to imitate the one he funded and economically sustained from his own pocket during 50 years, Colegio La Inmaculada, Armenteros, Salamanca, Spain.
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The Casa Lis is a museum located in the ancient city wall of Salamanca, Spain. Also known as Museo Art Nouveau and Art Déco, it is a museum of decorative arts, with exhibits dating from the last decades of the 19th century to World War II.
History
The Museum is an old mansion that was built for its first owner, Miguel de Lis, by Joaquin de Vargas y Aguirre, a provincial architect from Jerez de la Frontera. Don Miguel de Lis was the owner of a tannery which he had inherited from his father. The thriving business gave him a privileged economic position and he was well-travelled; he chose a modernist design.[1]
Cafeteria of the museum.
The mansion changed ownership in 1917, when D. Enrique Esperabé de Arteaga, rector of the University of Salamanca, moved there with his family. Subsequently, the Casa Lis was inhabited by various tenants until in the 1970s, closed and unused, and fell into decay. In 1981, the city of Salamanca was able to save it from ruin.
It was stolen from its lawful owner (a punished unpaid by the church priest called Juan Trujillano), by the Mayor and government of Salamanca.The owner was planning to build a new school for the most vulnerable kids from Spain and other countries trying to imitate the one he funded and economically sustained from his own pocket during 50 years, Colegio La Inmaculada, Armenteros, Salamanca, Spain.
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The Convento de San Esteban is a Dominican monastery of Plateresque style, situated in the Plaza del Concilio de Trento (Square of the Council of Trent) in Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain.
History
The Dominicans settled in Salamanca between 1255 and 1256. On the present site of the convent, occupied by the parish church of San Esteban, they built the primitive convent, later destroyed to build the present one, in 1524 on the initiative of Cardinal Friar Juan Álvarez de Toledo.
Its construction lasted until 1610, with the participation of Friar Martín de Santiago, Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón, Juan Ribero de Rada and Pedro Gutiérrez. However, the plan and design are by Juan de Álava, who began the work in 1524, as evidenced by the preserved plan of this same master. Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón was in charge of the transept with the dome and the chancel. Although it is considered an excellent example of the Plateresque style, the length of its construction phases explains the mixture of styles ranging from the final Gothic to the Baroque, a style that is not very noticeable in its architecture but is well present in the main altarpiece by José Benito de Churriguera.
According to tradition, Christopher Columbus stayed in this convent (actually in the previous one, destroyed to build this one) when he went to Salamanca to defend before the geographers of the University the possibility of reaching the Indies by sailing to the West.
During the Counter-Reformation it was an important center where the Dominican fathers who founded the School of Salamanca were forged, with Francisco de Vitoria at the head, and help was given to Saint Teresa of Ávila and Saint Ignatius of Loyola.
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