Amalio García del Moral fue un pintor granadino que amó a Sevilla y se enamoró de la Giralda. Tras su fallecimiento en 1995, su fundación (creada sólo ocho días antes de este hecho) apostó por salvaguardar el patrimonio cultural y artístico de este pintor de más de dos mil cuadros, muchos de ellos dedicados a la torre de nuestra catedral.
Algunos años atrás, en 1973, Amalio compró la casa nº 7 de la Plaza de Doña Elvira de Sevilla y allí estableció su estudio.
El pintor quería tener la Giralda cerca, quería poder contemplarla cada vez que se le antojara para pintarla a todas horas del día o de la noche, en invierno y en verano. Él mismo mandó grabar en el azulejo de la fachada esta frase personal y llena de connotaciones afectivas:
Amalio le ha puesto esta casa a la Giralda para hacerla suya.
Además quiso que la frase estuviera en los tres idiomas, de las tres culturas que han convivido en Sevilla: Cristiana, Árabe y Hebrea, como símbolo de tolerancia y convivencia entre los pueblos.
Amalio García del Moral was a granadian painter who loved Seville and fell in love with the Giralda Tower.
After his death in 1995, his foundation (created just eight days before this fact) bet for safeguarding the cultural and artistic heritage of this painter with more than two thousand pictures, many of them dedicated to the tower of our cathedral.
Some years behind, in 1973, Amalio bought the house n º 7 in Dona Elvira's Square and there established his study.
The painter wanted to live next to the Giralda Tower, he wanted to be able to contemplate it whenever he wanted to paint it at all hours of the day or of the night, in winter and in summer.
He gave the orders to record ina ceramic pieces of the front door of this house this personal phrase full of affective connotations:
"Amalio bought this house for the Giralda Tower".
In addition he wanted that the phrase was in three languages, of three cultures that have coexisted in Seville: Christian, Arabic and Hebrew, as symbol of tolerance and conviviality between the peoples.
In addition he wanted that the phrase was in three languages, of three cultures that have coexisted in Seville: Christian, Arabic and Hebrew, as symbol of tolerance and conviviality between the peoples.
