Palacio del Infante Don Luis de Borbón
The room in which we find ourselves was, during the years in which the Infante lived in Arenas, his bedroom. According to the sources of the time, it had an imperial bed with a border and a canopy, flanked on both sides by Corinthian columns. It also had a dressing table and an ewer with a Granada marble basin and a vase with garlands in relief. Currently, only the fireplace remains, which houses the permanent exhibition dedicated to a painter from Arenas of national importance. Victorio Rodríguez Born in 1930 in Arenas de San Pedro. He studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, where he was awarded the “El Paular” prize at the end of his studies in 1958. In 1959 he moved to Brazil, where he married and lived until 1977. There he lived a career dedicated to art, participating in different projects: the Biennials of Contemporary Art in São Paulo, the creation of the Art Gallery "Arenas" in Rio de Janeiro, the foundation of the Association of Plastic Arts in Brasilia, the creation of the Art Gallery "Victorio" to promote young painters. His paintings can be found all over the world: Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Japan, ... Upon his return to Spain, he continued to paint professionally and participated in the Gredos Painting Awards, winning twice, in 1994 and 1997. He died on 5 August 2005 in his hometown of Arenas de San Pedro. His painting is characterized by a mastery of different pictorial techniques that evolved throughout his life from a post-impressionist style to forms more typical of expressionism. He has a great mastery of color and drawing. He also worked with the technique of engraving and printing.