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"Déformation professionnelle". X-ray eyes
Carmen Garrido Pérez, Head of the Technical Office, 1982-2012"Déformation professionnelle". X-ray eyes
Carmen Garrido Pérez, Head of the Technical Office, 1982-2012
If you walk through the Prado Museum, in many works you can see something internal emerging towards the surface. You can see a sort of shadow, you see something like horse legs, one of the things that shows up most often. I sometimes simply go to a room with paintings by Goya and I can see another painting emerging from below to the surface. There's a famous old movie called "The Man with the X-ray Eyes." You get used to seeing a number of things, then you look at a painting and are expecting it.
Head of the Office of Technical Documentation at the Museum, conservator with the Spanish Association of Museum Professionals. She has worked at the Escuela de Restauración of Madrid, as well as at the laboratory of the Instituto de Conservación y Restauración. She has participated in numerous research studies and publications.
Interview recorded on April 20, 2018
Interview index
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Creating the Technical Office -
Always on the move -
A small team -
The first X-ray. The Descent from the Cross, by Rogier van der Weyden -
Traces of the creative process -
The Countess of Chinchón. Three Goyas for the price of one -
Technical documentation. The bridge between Conservation and Restoration -
The challenges of the Technical Office -
Support from the directors -
Picasso's Guernica. Working on an iconic painting in the year 1981 -
"Déformation professionnelle". X-ray eyes -
Going into Las Meninas -
Pictures that look at you -
The impact of a painting -
Get to know things and you'll love them -
El Greco. A discovery and the dream of a lifetime -
There is life after the Prado
- Collective
- Technical Documentation
- RDF
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Technical Documentation
Inmaculada Echeverría Elvira
Head of the Technical Documentation and Laboratory Section, 1985-2024
Theme
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Voces del Prado