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 [...]

Museo de Arte de Ponce announces exhibition of masterpieces from the Prado Museum

PONCE.- Museo de Arte de Ponce and Banco Santander announced the exhibit El Greco to Goya: Masterpieces from the Prado Museum, a selection of 25 paintings from the collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. This prominent exhibit, which includes works by renowned artists such as Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez, and Francisco de Zurbarán, will be open to the public at Museo de Arte de Ponce from March 25 to July 9, 2012. The Prado’s director for conservation and research, [...]

Prado Museum Presents an Exhibition of a Previously Unknown Period in Ribera’s Career

MADRID.- The Museo del Prado presents The Young Ribera, a survey of Ribera’s activity during his period in Rome and in the years following his arrival in Naples in 1616. The exhibition runs from April 5 through July 31, 2011. This is a period of Ribera’s career that was almost completely unknown until recently and one that is the subject of an extremely interesting debate among art historians. Featuring more thirty two works, the exhibition allows for comparisons between the most [...]

Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve Returns to Public Display at the Prado Museum

MADRID.- The Museum is once again displaying the magnificent pair of paintings of Adam and Eve (1507) by Albrecht Dürer, following two years of intensive restoration to their pictorial surfaces and supports. The work on the two panels has benefited from the participation of a team of international experts, jointly co-ordinated by the Prado and the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles. The latter institution funded the restoration of the delicate panels on which the two paintings are executed, leading to [...]

The Prado Offers a Clear Appreciation of the Evolution of Rubens’ Style in New Exhibition

MADRID.- The Museum’s Rubens galleries are temporarily closed for re-modelling as part of the Prado’s “Second Extension” plan. As a result, and over the course of more than two months, the Museum is inviting the public to enter into the vibrant artistic universe of this great and highly prolific Flemish painter through an innovative type of display of its important holdings of autograph works by Rubens and works by his studio. In addition, it is the first time for a decade [...]

Turner and The Masters Opens at the Museo del Prado with Additional Works of Art

MADRID.- Having already been seen in London and Paris, Turner and the Masters will now be shown at the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Its aim is to reveal to visitors the extent of Turner’s links with other historically important artists and the profoundly original way in which he assimilated their influence. This comparison will assist in an understanding of how Turner’s approach to and assimilation of other artists was intended not just as an homage to them but also [...]

Painting in Storage at Italian Ducal Palace May Be Raphael’s

ROME.- A finely painted portrait of a demurely looking woman nestled in an exceptionally ornate frame that was kept in an Italian ducal palace storeroom appears to be a Raphael original and not a copy as long thought, an art official in central Italy said Friday. However, experts on the Renaissance giant quickly cautioned that art historians would have to closely study it before any conclusions can be made. Mario Scalini, state superintendent for art in Modena and nearby towns, [...]

Unseen Sorolla Leads Spanish Section of European Paintings Sale at Sotheby’s

LONDON.- Once again Sotheby’s announced that the Spanish section of its 19th Century European Paintings sale on Wednesday, 2 June, 2010 will be headed by a rare work by Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923). Joaquín Sorolla stands out as the period’s most prolific and renowned artist and was the subject of a major retrospective of his life and work at the Prado Museum in Madrid in 2009. Sorolla’s luminous landscapes, scenes of Spanish life and portraits are highly sought after on both [...]

Prado Museum in Madrid Announces Schedule for 2010

MADRID.- In anticipation of the interest that may arise in which exhibitions that will take place at the Prado next year, the museum has released some information. The first one will open in March entitled “The Art of Power”, the show was recently on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington with a public attendance of almost 250.000 people. During the months of January and February, two temporary exhibitions will still be open to the public: “Maíno and [...]