This great work of nine volumes that is in front of you is Die Balearen, the most comprehensive work there is on the landscape, customs and traditions of the Balearic culture of the nineteenth century, written by the Archduke Ludwig Salvator between 1869 and 1891. Many…
This characteristic work of Mallorcan landscaping is a painting by Bartolomé Lluís Ferrà y Juan (Palma, 1893-1946) during the first half of the 20th century. Bartolomé Lluís Ferrà y Juan was a painter and art critic, son of the writer and archaeologist Bartomeu Ferrà y…
Henri Brugnot (Lyon, 1874 – Uzes, 1940) was a French painter and pastellist specializing in portraits and landscapes. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon and later with the famous artists Fernand Cormon and Gustave Moreau in Paris. For a season he…
Who is the master of Son Moragues? What was so special about this man that the artist from Palma, Joan Fuster, decided to make a portrait of him? What story is hidden behind this painting? This beautiful work contains a curious anecdote in which a…
Taking advantage of the fact that January is dedicated to the monastic pharmacy of the Cartuja de Valldemossa, the painting of the month is located precisely in the small and beautiful pharmacy of the monastery. It is an oil on canvas depicting the medical saints…
On of the most curious aspect of this carthusian monastery chemist shop is that it is still possible to find the original contents of the medicine containers, including raw materials and medical preparations. The oldes glass containers, dated to the middle of the 18th Century,…
It is a print of the game of the goose made in the 16th century from a wooden plank worked with a gouge or burin to make the drawing and later impregnated with ink. There are several versions in terms of to the origin of…
This primitive press from the Guasp printing house is one of the best preserved from the 17th century in Europe. The inscription “any 1622” (year 1622) can be seen on the crossbar that crowns the wood where the press is activated, the exact date of…
The work “Time to harvest”, by the prolific Palmesian painter Joan Fuster Bonnin (1870 – 1943), is a beautiful characteristic painting of the first artistic stage of the painter. Made in 1899, only a year after marrying María Ignacia Tarongí, the piece shows a placid…