The Prado Museum will celebrate tomorrow, the first Saturday in April, a new day of the ‘Prado at night’ initiative in which the first Saturday of each month, from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., with limited capacity, offers to “enjoy an experience unique and unrepeatable” within the framework of a program that aims to “extend the knowledge of the institution in a sequenced manner.”
The Central Gallery of the Villanueva building and its adjacent rooms will star this opening night, with its exhibition of European painting, in which works by Titian, Velázquez, Rubens and Goya, among other great masters, stand out, according to the art gallery.
One of the most special corners of this building is the crossroads of views that occur in the central section of this space, with the perspective of three of the most important portraits in the history of painting: ‘Charles V at the Battle of Mühlberg ‘, by Titian, ‘Las meninas’, by Velázquez, and ‘The Family of Charles IV’, by Goya.
This opportunity also offers the possibility of enjoying two exceptional works that the gallery exhibits exceptionally: ‘The art cabinet of Cornelis van der Geest’, by Willen van Haecht, from the Rubenshuis Museum, located in Antwerp (Belgium); and ‘Still life with citrons, oranges and rose’, Zurbarán’s only signed and dated still life, from the Norton Simon Museum.
For its part, ‘The Prado at night’ offers the possibility of discovering some of the interactive experiences that Samsung has developed in collaboration with the art gallery, such as ‘The Prado Guide’, which includes more than 400 masterpieces commented by the curators and museum specialists, and will open the cafeteria service during visits.
