Ingres

24 November 2015 - 27 March 2016
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The work of Ingres, only seemingly rooted in Academic painting, undoubtedly constitutes an important forerunner of the late 19th- and early 20th-century artistic revolutions. The heir to Raphael and Poussin, Ingres’ work anticipates both Picasso and anatomical distortion in art, inspiring the revitalisation of the 19th-century European art schools, particularly the Spanish.

The exhibition to be shown at the Museo del Prado in 2015, which has benefitted from the special collaboration of the Musée du Louvre, offers a precise chronological presentation of Ingres’ work but will also pay particular attention to his complex relationship with portraiture (characterised byhis simultaneous rejection and admiration for it), which will be juxtaposed with his ongoing aim of being primarily recognised as a history painter

The Divine Morales

1 October 2015 - 10 January 2016
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Luis de Morales was one of the most original and recognisable artists of the Spanish Renaissance and a key reference point in painting in Extremadura in the second half of the 16th century. Morales was considered to have his own particular style, a distinguishable “brand name” that appears in numerous inventories and is represented in many Spanish and international collections. Morales’s most important and characteristic works were widely known due to the existence of his own studio and to the repetitions of them by other painters and followers. Only El Greco can be considered a comparable phenomenon in Spain from approximately 1585 onwards in terms of the dissemination of his art and his commercial success.

This exhibition highlights the artistic activity and personality of Luis de Morales almost a century after the Museodel Prado presented the first monographic exhibition on the artist.

Rogier van der Weyden

24 March - 28 June 2015
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This exhibition is organised in conjunction with the restoration of the great Crucifixion in El Escorial, which is currently being undertaken at the Prado as part of a collaborative institutional agreement between the Museum and Patrimonio Nacional.

The exhibition will provide a unique and remarkable opportunity to see The Crucifixion, The Descent from the Cross and The Durán Virgin alongside other works by the Flemish artist that were in Spain from an early date, such as the celebrated Miraflores Triptych (now Berlin, Gemäldegalerie). As a result, the exhibition will allow for an appreciation of the artist’s finest and most fully documented works, as well as analysing different and fundamental aspects of Van der Weyden’s creative activity, such as the close links between his works and sculpture, the far-reaching subsequent influence of his art and its repercussion in Spain.

Ten Picassos from the Kunstmuseum Basel

16 March 2015 - 13 September 2015
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During the spring and summer of 2015, the Museo del Prado will be presenting ten masterpieces by Pablo Picasso from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel while that institution is closed for alterations. Ten works by the Malaga-born artist, dating between 1906 and 1967, will thus offer a small retrospective to be shown in the Central Gallery of the Villanueva Building alongside some of the Museum’s greatest masterpieces.

This project is part of a broader collaborative agreement between the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Museo del Prado and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, which will also be presenting a selection of works from the Swiss museum.

Goya in Madrid

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24 November 2014 – 3 May 2015

Opening in November and coinciding with the remodelling of the galleries on the second floor of the Museum’s south wing that house Goya’s cartoons and the collection of 18th-century Spanish paintings, the Museo del Prado will be presenting an exhibition on Goya’s tapestry cartoons, to be shown in its temporary exhibition galleries. The cartoons will be displayed alongside loans from other collections and paintings on deposit or not habitually on display in order to establish an innovative dialogue between Goya’s cartoons and the works of other artists of his own time or earlier. This dialogue will reveal the artist’s links with earlier tradition, the inspiration of the classical world, which was of such fundamental importance in the second half of the 18th century, and his range of contemporary sources.

In addition, the exhibition will reveal how the tapestry cartoons are essential for an understanding of the artist’s work and for an appreciation of his particular technique, unique and varied artistic resources and the particular nature of his models, with their characteristic appearances and distinctive gestures. Together these elements laid the way for Goya’s subsequent creations in his small-format paintings, drawings and print series

El Greco y la pintura moderna

24 de junio – 5 octubre 2014
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La exposición El Greco y la pintura moderna, coorganizada con Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), mostrará la importancia que el redescubrimiento de la figura del Greco tuvo para el desarrollo de la pintura de los siglos XIX y XX. Una selección de veinticinco obras del maestro cretense junto a más de setenta obras modernas pondrá de manifiesto la complejidad y riqueza de la influencia del Greco en un periodo de transformaciones radicales de la pintura.

La exposición trazará un recorrido que partirá de la consideración del Greco en el siglo XIX a través de artistas como Manet y Cézanne, así como de otros destacados pintores españoles del último tercio del siglo. La influencia, que fue capital, en Picasso y el cubismo, se revisará en la siguiente sección. Luego se presentará la relación con los expresionismos centroeuropeos, entre ellos Kokoschka, Beckmann, y con el surrealismo. Otra sección estudiará su influencia en América, especialmente en Orozco, Matta y Pollock. Para finalizar se mostrará la resonancia de la figura del Greco en las angustiadas figuraciones de los años cincuenta y sesenta a través de artistas como Bacon, Giacometti y Saura.

El Greco’s Library

1 April - 29 June 2014
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On El Greco’s death in Toledo on 7 April 1614, his possessions included 130 books that are partly known from two inventories compiled by his son Jorge Manuel Theotokopouli: one drawn up a few weeks after the painter’s death and another of 1621, compiled as proof of the possessions that Jorge Manuel was bringing to his second marriage.

Based on the original documents of these two inventories, the exhibition is organised into five sections which together present its theoretical argument. Greek forefathers and the classical heritage, Metamorphosis in Italy, Painting as a speculative science,  Vitruvius and the terms of architecture, The problem of religious imagery

Rubens. The Triumph of the Eucharist

25th March 2014 - 29th June 2014
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Rubens. The Triumph of the Eucharist is an exhibition opening in late March at the Museo del Prado. It focuses on both a major restoration project at the Museum and on the importance and outstanding quality of Rubens’s paintings. Curated by Alejandro Vergara, Chief Curator of Flemish and Northern Schools Painting at the Prado, the exhibition will analyse one of Rubens’s most important projects: the six panels on “The Triumph of the Eucharist” commissioned from the artist by Isabel Clara Eugenia in 1625 as models for tapestries for the convent of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid. The panels will be shown alongside the tapestries made from these designs, which now belong to Patrimonio Nacional.

In 2011 work started on a meticulous restoration of the six panels in the Prado’s collection, a project funded by Fundación Iberdrola in its capacity as Benefactor Member of the Museum’s Restoration Programme. Restorers at the Museum removed various 18th-century additions to each of the panels, which had prevented a correct visual appreciation of Rubens’s designs and had also damaged the original supports. The exhibition will offer a detailed analysis of this restoration process. In addition, the project involved the training of restorers from museums in Europe and the USA who are specialising in the restoration of wooden supports and who received support from the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, which funded the time that they spent in Madrid.

Evil vanishes. Egusquiza and Wagner´s Parsifal

5 Novembre 2013 - 29 June 2014
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The Museum is taking part in the celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) with an exhibition devoted to works based on his last opera, Parsifal, executed by the Cantabrian painter Rogelio de Egusquiza (1845-1915), who was a fervent admirer of the Leipzig-born composer.

This group of paintings, drawings and prints, donated by the artist in 1902, is now on display at the Prado for the first time. It represents a unique and surprising evocation of the intense, heroic mysticism that characterises the Wagnerian universe and is also one of the most interesting examples of European Symbolism.

Velázquez. Late Portraits

8th October 2013 - 9th February 2014
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Through around 30 works this exhibition will analyse the development of Velázquez’s court portraits from his second trip to Rome in 1649 to his death in Madrid in 1660, a period that saw the creation of some of the greatest of all masterpieces within this genre, such as Las Meninas.

In addition to 14 works by the artist himself, the exhibition will include portraits produced in his circle with the aim of focusing on the complex process behind the creation of the royal image.

The exhibition will also trace the subsequent development of the Spanish court portrait after Velázquez’s death when artists such as Mazo and Carreño reinterpreted his ideas, resulting in innovative contributions to the genre in their depictions of Margarita of Austria, Mariana of Austria andCharles II.

Hidden Beauty

21.05 – 10.11.2013
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The exhibition Hidden Beauty will offer an historical-artistic survey of the Museo del Prado’s collections through more than 250 paintings in which the common denominator is their small size, reflecting their function as cabinet paintings or preparatory studies.

The exhibition opens with 14th-century examples of scenes from portable altarpieces and from altarpiece predellas. It also includes works of this type from the 15th century, as well as intense, intimate devotional paintings by Flemish, Italian and Spanish masters and mythological scenes painted from the front of Italian wedding chests. The 16th-century paintings in the exhibition reveal the rise of landscape as a genre, the use of new materials such as slate or copper panels and the taste for exquisitely painted, small copies of famous paintings produced for refined clients. The 17th-century section focuses on portraiture, still life and series of paintings, with examples by Teniers and Murillo, shown alongside preparatory sketches, a format which reached its peak of expression with Rubens. The 18th century was the age of the cabinet painting, with examples by Watteau, Goya and Paret, while the exhibition concludes in the 19th century with Vicente López and Mariano Fortuny.

El Labrador

11.03 – 16.06.2013

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For the first time, the Museo del Prado will be offering the visiting public the opportunity to see the entire oeuvre of the Spanish painter Juan Fernández, known as “El Labrador”, who worked in the first half of the 17th century and was a key name in the early development of the still life in Spain. El Labrador’s fame as a painter of such works, which were greatly in demand from collectors, extended beyond Spain and paintings by his hand were to be found in the English royal collection.

The five works by the artist in the Prado’s collection – a floral still life acquired from a private collector in 1946, which may have been in the royal collections in the seventeenth century, plus four paintings that entered the Museum with the Naseiro collection in 2006 – will be exhibited alongside the rest of the artist’s known oeuvre. These additional works are primarily loaned from private international collections and will assist in promoting greater knowledge of the remarkable work of this exquisite, enigmatic painter.