15/03/2010

From tomorrow, the Museo del Prado will be offering visitors the unique and probably unrepeatable chance to see Velázquez’s Las Meninas (1656) alongside The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882) by John Singer Sargent. The latter has been loaned by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) and is presented at the Museum as part of the “Invited Work” programme, which is sponsored by the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado. The direct comparison established between the two masterpieces emphasises the evident influence of Velázquez’s celebrated painting on Sargent’s work. The two paintings can be seen together side by side for the next two and a half months.

08/03/2010

Opening on 9 March, the Museo del Prado is presenting the exhibition "The Art of Power. The Royal Armoury and the Court Portrait" organized in collaboration with Patrimonio Nacional, Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX) and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

02/12/2009

The Museo del Prado is focusing on Dutch painting with the presentation of the temporary exhibition Dutch Painters at the Prado, as well as its latest “Invited Work”, Company of Captain Reijnier Reael loaned from the Rijksmuseum

20/10/2009

This October the Museo del Prado is presenting the first monographic exhibition on Juan Bautista Maíno, one of the most original but least known figures within Spanish painting of the first half of the 17th century. For the first time the exhibition, sponsored by the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, will bring together almost all the artist’s known works, together with seven previously unknown ones and others by Spanish and Italian painters that will help to set Maíno’s paintings in an international and Spanish context.

17/07/2009

In an unprecedented collaboration between the two institutions, the Prado will be launching the most ambitious educational programme of its history, aimed at schools and families. This new programme will officially last for four years (2009-2013) and will annually benefit more than 200,000 school-aged children. As a result of the agreement signed today, “la Caixa” will contribute 720,000 Euros to this programme as well as its own experience and educational methodology. The programme will begin next academic term and will encompass a wide-ranging and innovative range of visits to the collections aimed at Primary and Secondary-school children, as well as backup material for teachers and for families with children visiting the Museum.

01/06/2009

This morning Gabriele Finaldi, Associate Director of Curatorship at the Museo del Prado, and Santiago Palomero, General Deputy Director of State Museums, accompanied by Leticia Ruiz, the Prado’s El Greco curator, presented the special display of El Greco’s View and Plan of Toledo to the press. The canvas, which is one of El Greco’s most original works, painted shortly before his death, will be temporarily displayed at the Prado following its restoration at the Museum. It will be shown alongside three other works by the artist: Saint Sebastian, Saint Andrew and Saint Francis, and Saint Bernard, which also include partial views of Toledo.

25/05/2009

The Museo del Prado is presenting the largest and most important retrospective ever to be devoted to the work of Joaquín Sorolla, the most internationally celebrated Spanish painter of the XIX century. The exhibition includes more than 100 paintings by the artist and will offer a comprehensive overview of his finest works, among them all of his great masterpieces. They include the group of panels entitled Visions of Spain, painted for the Hispanic Society of America and brought to Spain by Bancaja in 2007. This exceptional exhibition has benefited from the sponsorship of Bancaja, who in addition to their significant undertaking as organising body of the exhibition “Sorolla. Vision of Spain” that was shown to great acclaim in various Spanish cities, has now made a further contribution in the form of their collaboration with this major exhibition project at the Prado.