Telefónica renews commitment to the Prado, coinciding with the start of the new 7-days-a-week opening hours

MADRID.- José Ignacio Wert, the Minister of Education, Sport and Culture, presided over the signing of an agreement through which Telefónica is renewing its sponsorship of the Museo del Prado for another four years. On his arrival at the Museum and before the signing took place, the new Minister made a brief tour of some of the galleries on the principal floor, which were open to the public today for the first time on a Monday. He was accompanied by Plácido Arango, President [...]

A major landscape by painter Antonio Joli donated by the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado

MADRID.- The Museo del Prado is presenting this new donation in the form of a small exhibition of twelve works shown alongside View of Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony at the Arch of Trajan in Benevento, an architectural landscape executed in 1759 by the set painter and vedutista Antonio Joli (Modena, 1700 – Naples, 1777). The exhibition includes three paintings by the artist from the Museum’s collection as well as various landscapes and views by his predecessors such as Panini and Vanvitelli, [...]

Velázquez’s equestrian portraits regain their quality and original composition

MADRID.- The Museo del Prado yesterday presented some of the most important restoration projects that it has undertaken this year, sponsored by Fundación Iberdrola in its capacity as “Protector Member” of the Restoration Programme. The three restoration projects presented today also relate to the re-hang of the Museum’s collections, a programme entitled The Collection: The Second Expansion Plan. The programme’s aims include equipping the works on display with the museological resources necessary for their optimum presentation, as well as analysing and reviewing [...]

The Museo del Prado is increasing its activities by opening every day of the week

MADRID.- The Museo del Prado took the decision to increase its opening hours to every day of the week in order to improve and expand its cultural activities and thus guarantee its commitment to covering 60% of its budget through self-financing. This new initiative starts with the exhibition ‘The Hermitage in the Prado’, which will be open every day of the week, from Mondays to Sundays, from the day it opens on 8 November. The Museum’s Permanent Collection will also have new opening [...]

The Museo del Prado shows Goya’s first documented painting for a period of six years

MADRID.- The display of The victorious Hannibal at the Museo del Prado offers visitors an exceptional opportunity to see one of the most important and impressive works from Goya’s early career. Painted in the spring of 1771, it falls within a period not previously represented in the Prado’s rich and remarkable collection of the artist’s works. Through an agreement reached between the Museum and the Fundación Selgas-Fagalde to promote and disseminate their respective collections and the artistic heritage that these institutions house, Goya’s [...]

Rome: Nature and the Ideal Landscapes 1600-1650 at the Prado Museum in Madrid

MADRID.- Featuring more than 100 works, the exhibition Rome: Nature and the Ideal. Landscapes 1600-1650 will be exhibited at the Museo del Prado after its showing at the Grand Palais in Paris. The exhibition project is one of the most ambitious to be undertaken by the Prado, which has worked closely with the Musée du Louvre. Works have been loaned from fifty different sources in order to offer the most important selection of landscape of this period to be exhibited to [...]

The Hermitage and the Prado Announce Exchange of Important Selection of Works

MADRID.- The Minister of Culture, Ángeles González Sinde, yesterday presided over the signing of the agreements between the Museo del Prado, the State Hermitage Museum and the State Society for Cultural Action. These agreements pave the way for an unprecedented exchange between the two museums in the form of two major exhibitions that will demonstrate the variety, quality and breadth of the collections of these great institutions. Spanish Culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde (L), Prado Museum Royal Patronage president Placido Arango [...]

Jovellanos’s portrait of a woman hidden under the paint

Oviedo (Spain) This discovery has been possible to apply on the table, which is in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, in Oviedo, a technique of X-ray and reflectography. The portrait of Jovellanos in the sand of San Lorenzo (1780-1782), painted by Francisco de Goya, concealed under another painting, that of a young woman whose identity is unknown, also the work of the Aragonese artist. This discovery has been possible to apply on the table, which is in the [...]

Museo del Prado Publishes First Multi-Interactive, Online Video Relating to Art

MADRID.-The Museo del Prado published the first multi-interactive, online video relating to art. Entitled “Rubens 360º”, this initiative, which is a pioneering one in the context of museum websites, is another landmark within the Prado’s mission to make its collections and exhibitions accessible beyond the Museum’s physical space, while also expanding and increasing its educational and informational activities. This new initiative has been made possible through the support of Telefónica, Benefactor Sponsor of the Visitor Attention programme and has been created [...]