The Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museum of Art Pudong are co-organizing the Ages of Splendor exhibition from this Tuesday until September 1. A History of Spain in the Museo del Prado, an exhibition that has brought to Shanghai (China) a selection of 73 works preserved in the well-known Madrid museum, including three by El Greco, four by Velázquez, six by Rubens and eight by Goya.
According to the Prado, this exhibition aims to “show the excellence and uniqueness” of its collections, “also considering those works that demonstrate the interest of European art in the different Asian cultures, especially that of China, between the 16th and 16th centuries.” XIX”.
The exhibition, articulated around different stories, offers complementary discourses through eleven rooms in which the visitor can learn about the social and political evolution of Spain for more than four hundred years, from the reign of Charles V to the beginning of the 20th century. .
Attention is also paid to the development of certain genres, such as mythology, still life and religious painting, each of which occupies a specific room, highlighting the one dedicated to the nude, which evokes the Reserved Room that existed in the Prado in the early decades of its history. The exhibition also has a section dedicated exclusively to Goya.
El Greco, Sofonisba Anguissola, Rubens, Velázquez, Murillo, Zurbarán, Tiziano, Clara Peeters, Goya, Fortuny and Sorolla are some of the great masters represented in this tour that reaches 70 works.
The exhibition is completed with the loan of the ‘Gioconda del Prado’ in a special section called ‘In Focus’. This presentation allows you to learn about the history of the painting from the 18th century, when the painting was in the Royal Collections, until its restoration in the Prado in 2011. Its exhibition will be complemented by three works on paper that show its state before that year. .
