With his Majesty the King of Spain
One of the most important positions that Javier Morales has held in his professional life has been as the
Commissioner of Crown Heritage (Royal Palace, Madrid) Exhibitions from Spain in the United States, in collaboration with the
Prado Museum and other museums.
These exhibitions have been visited by their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain, and have been extremely successful
with the public and the academic community.
Their aim has been to present great Spanish Art as a symbol of Western Culture and the values that Spain took to America.
The most important exhibition from Spain abroad: A total of 600 works of art. 550 from the Royal Palaces
(vases, ivory, furniture, crockery, glass, bronze statues, Royal Gondolas, Goya tapestries, paintings etc.) 50 paintings from
the Prado Museum, exact reproduction of two luxurious rooms in the Royal Palace and the recreation of others with its original
decoration from the XVIII Century.
All of this to represent a forgotten era in history. The widespread presence of Spain in the Southern United States and the
military aid, money and the sacrifice of soldiers that Spain provided to George Washington in the fight for independence. In
remembrance of the Spanish colonials who founded cities in the Mississippi Delta and became part of the first generation of free
citizens of the United States. Their descendants are now grouped together in The Isleños Association.
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An interesting vision of religious art in Spain from the VII Century through the XIX Century. Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Visigoth and Christian art. Art as an expression of the most noble and profound, created by the ethics and values of the Western Culture that Spain took to America. Paintings and sculpture, tapestries, jewelry and gold liturgical objects, taken from the Royal Collections, the Prado Museum and the L. Galdeano Foundation in Madrid, paintings from the Great Masters such as Rafael, El Greco, Veronés, Zurbarán, Murillo, Ribera, Mengs etc. And the exact reproduction of the Roman Chapel of the XII Century from the Prado Museum, which has become a symbol in the Alexandria Museum of Art in which ecumenical acts were held by religious representatives of Hebrew, Protestant and Catholic faiths. An exhibition of a great cultural and educational impact.
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Celebrating the bicentennial of the purchase of Louisiana from France by the USA – which had been under Spanish rule for a long time. This exhibition showed paintings of the Royal Palaces and portraits of the Kings and Queens of Spain, maps and documents from the Palacio Real of Madrid together with pieces from other museums and exceptional documents from the New Orleans Collection. An interesting exhibition that brought to light the rich and varied historical and cultural roots of Louisiana.
An ambitious exhibition on the extensive scientific voyages Spain carried out across the whole of America.
Starting with the first voyage of the Discovery of America by the Spanish Admiral Christopher Columbus in 1492. A special focus on
the Spanish voyages of Malaespina in the North of the United States (Seattle, Isle of St. John, the Juan de Fuca Strait) with
interesting Indian objects from Spanish and American collections.
The humanitarian and scientific interest of the Spanish Kings and Queens from Isabel the Catholic Queen, XV Century, up to the
Philanthropic Royal Vaccination Expedition in 1803, in which Spain conducted mass scale vaccinations on the populations of America,
the Philippines and China to eradicate smallpox and save the lives of millions of people.
Nautical instruments, armory and Royal portraits, tapestries, sculptures, engravings, drawings and paintings, maps, legal
documents of protection of the Indians and eradication of tribal wars and cannibalism, scientific books and dictionaries of
Indo-American languages which saved up to 80 important languages. A highlight is the letter of the Mayan Princes written in their
own language to Phillip II, founder of the seven Universities in America and great defender of the sciences and the arts.
Paintings from Bosco, Moro, Coello, Zurbarán, El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo, Mengs and the Bronze Christ of Bernini, which
was exhibited in America for the first time.
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This same exhibition was inaugurated at the Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida with interesting variations to highlight the Indian cultures of the Caribbean, especially the Taina, Maya and Aztec cultures.
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