Both for the guests that stays with us and the visitors that want to know the hotel, Es Revellar Art Resort offers a sensorial experience that joins local gastronomy and art.
The offer includes:
• Welcome cocktail
• 2 hours visit to the gardens and museum rooms
• Dinner at the restaurant or terrace
Price: € 70.00
Information and reservations: +971 160 274 / WhatsApp +34 691 582 316
African Art Collection (Nok culture)
The Nok culture appeared in Nigeria around the year 500 BC. and became extinct at the end of the first millennium AD, without a reasonable explanation having been found.
It should be noted that its social structure was very advanced if we compare it with the rest of West Africa, an area that in that same period was assimilating the Neolithic.
The Nok culture is considered the most refined producer of terracotta in sub-Saharan Africa.
Papua New Guinea & Easter Island
In our oceanic museum we exhibit an extensive collection of artistic objects from Papua New Guinea and Easter Island:
- "Story boards" (reliefs carved in tree bark that explain life in the tribes).
- A large collection of masks.
- A large collection of ornamental shields.
- A large collection of fetishes.
- A large number of fired clay vessels at low temperature.
- A large collection of Spanish travel trunks from the 13th century to the present day.
- Fabrics and figures from Easter Island.
Museum of African art
It contains a large collection of masks and fetishes from Ghana, from the Ivory Coast, Mozambique, as well as shaman costumes from Nigeria.
In addition, sculptures from the Congo, Dogon sculptures, and paintings from Togo and Kenya are also exhibited.
A large collection that represents part of African art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Romanesque chapel
When entering the chapel one cannot help but look up. An imposing coffered ceiling welcomes us in all its splendor.
Made by the former restorer of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Julián Picazo, the ceiling is made up of 117 polychrome panels with 24-carat gold floral decorations.
Inspired by the book “Iconology” by Cesare Rippa (written in the 16th century and considered a fundamental text in the field of arts) the panels represent vices, virtues and passions, as well as all the different states of human life.
Inside the chapel we also find Romanesque sculptures from the 11th century, as well as bas-reliefs and paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries, as well as other pieces.
The great mural
One of the longest murals (86 meters) painted by an artist, Jesús Cánovas.
Mural inspired by 8 myths of ancient Greece:
Myth of Prometheus
Prometheus is the Titan friend of mortals, honored mainly for stealing the fire of the gods from the stem of a reed, giving it to humans for their use and being punished for this reason.
Zeus took revenge on Prometheus and had him taken to the Caucasus, where he was chained by Hephaestus with the help of Bia and Cratos. Zeus sent an eagle (daughter of the monsters Typhon and Echidna) to eat the entrails of Prometheus. Being immortal, it was completely cured every night, and the eagle came back to eat them every day
The three gracesThe Carites or Graces (on the right side of this panel and the left side of the next) were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility. Usually they are considered three, from the smallest to the largest: Aglaia ('Beauty'), Euphrosyne ('Joy') and Thalia ('Festivities').
The Charites used to be considered daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, although it was also said that they were daughters of Hera, Dionysus, or Helios and the naiad Egle. Homer wrote that they were part of Aphrodite's retinue. The Carites were also associated with the underworld and the Eusinos mysteries.
The Abduction of Europe
In The Metamorphoses, Ovid tells that Europa was a Phoenician princess and Zeus kidnapped her in the form of a white bull, taking her from the shores of what is now Lebanon to the island of Crete, where she fathered Minos, Sarpdedon. and Rhadamanthys.
Olympus
For Greek mythology, Olympus was the home of the Olympian gods, the main gods of the Greek pantheon, presided over by Zeus. The Greeks believed that there were glass mansions built there in which the gods lived.
Apollo
Apollo, thegod of the arts, was possibly the most beloved Greek god in ancient Greece. Son of Zeus and Leto, and twin brother of Artemis, he was born on the island of Delos. His mother, fearful of the revenge of Zeus' wife Hera, had chosen the barren island of Delos as the safest refuge she could find. It is said that upon tasting ragweed for the first time, he was immediately transformed from a baby to a man. Apollo was then given his bow, made by the master craftsman of Mount Olympus, Hephaestus.
Athena
In Greek mythology, Athena or Athena is thegoddess of wisdom, strategy and just war. She was considered a mentor of heroes and adored since ancient times as the patron saint of Athens, where the Parthenon was built to worship her.
The Trojan Horse
The siege of Troy lasted ten years. The Greeks came up with a new trick - a large hollow wooden horse. It was built by Epeus and occupied by Greek soldiers led by Odysseus. The rest of the Greek army pretended to leave and the Trojans accepted the horse as a peace offering. A Greek spy, Sinon, convinced the Trojans that the horse was an offering to Athena despite warnings from Laocoon and Cassandra. The Trojans had a great celebration and, when the Greeks got off their horses, the entire city was in a drunken sleep. The Greek warriors opened the gates of the city to allow the rest of the troops to enter and it was plundered without mercy.
Ulysses shooting arrows that turn into mermaids.
In Greek mythology, sirens are a diffuse class that includes several beings distinguished by a musical and prodigiously attractive voice; The oldest artistic representations, which show them as birds with a female face or torso, are probably due to the association of birds with singing, as well as the frequent iconographic use of winged beings to represent the spirits of the dead.< /span>