Dream of Alhambra

Serie: Large Format Artworks

Technique: Latex on canvas

Size: 140 x 190 cm

Year: 2007

The Alhambra, named for its reddish walls ('qa'lat al-Hamra', Red Castle), is located at the top of the al-Sabika hill, on the left bank of the Darro River, east of the city of Granada, in front of the Albaicín and Alcazaba neighborhoods.

It is recorded for the first time in the 9th century.

Its Nasrid architecture constitutes the end of a period of splendor that began in the Umayyad Córdoba in the 8th century.

The Alhambra baths were built east of the Comares Palace, following the model of the Roman baths.

Thus, the Room of the Beds, the first room that we find when entering the bathrooms, would be the «apoditerium», which was used to undress before entering the bathroom, and has a square space in the center, delimited by columns, in which we find a fountain and galleries around it.

It is something like an open space to the upper floor, from whose gallery it is said that the monarch leaned out to see his naked women, and then threw an apple at the one he had chosen to spend the night.

This painting shows us a magical moment in which a bath in the Alhambra takes on new life, reflecting a sunset sky in its waters.

In that sky of water, a boat awaits the innocent and dreamy woman who is encouraged to flee in it to other fantasy worlds.