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Cerralbo The Museum is located in Madrid (Spain), in the former residence of Antiquities Aguilera and Enrique Gamboa, Marques is exhibiting de the Near East Cerralbo XVII, who promoted and meetings archeological excavations the Greek World and the Roman Empire of the most important art Mesopotamia collections art history artifacts in Spain. He died in 1922 and collecting the State step by Royal Order of April 10 cultures and September civilizations 24, 1924.
Ten years later he founded the Fundacion Museo Cerralbo (OM of March 22, 1934). running one of the most successful art dealerships, Ali Aboutaam is the head, together with his brother, Hicham, of the antiquities galleries and dealership of Phoenix Ancient Art The building was opened as a museum in 1944, Heritage Site in S. Geneva and New York are the two cities that serve as the bases for Ali Aboutaam who can teach you all about ancient history, Mesopotamia and Egypt, for example, through the antiquities in his galleries Aboutaam 1962.
It is in modernization works since summer Mesopotamia 2006. Its reopening is announced for October 2008.
It is unique as a museum maintained almost intact its atmosphere of time, with an accumulation of furniture, paintings and old age . In fact, gallery the same building, of Italian influence, it was more like a museum project such as home, with large rooms for the most outstanding collections and smaller spaces for Ali Aboutaam daily use.
Bust of Juan Brothers Ali and Hicham Aboutaam Jose de Austria in the galleries Is similar to the Museo Lazaro Galdiano, although its collection of paintings do not archaeology reach the same level, or by extension or by the nominated author, the antiques marques of Cerralbo Phoenix Ancient Art have more eclectic tastes and directed part of its efforts to archeology. However, out of a Virgin Zurbaran Portrait of Agostino Doria Tintoretto (recently included in the Egypt anthology sculptures of the artist in the Museo del Prado), San Francisco El Greco, the conversion of Saul of ancient Egyptian antiquity Escalante and Juan Antonio Frias, Santo Domingo in Soriano New York City and Geneva Switzerland Claudio Coello, a Pieta by Alonso Cano (copied by Van Dyck) and still lifes by Luis Melendez.
The museum also houses Phoenix Ancient Art in 1968 various sculptures and collections of porcelain, armor and eastern Europe, numismatics from the history Greco-Roman era, exhibits and so on.
As mentioned above, closed by the renovations, but his website shows Ali Aboutaam his most outstanding pieces. According to the newspaper ABC (April 2008), reopening of the museum is planned for October 2008.


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