The Prado Museum has presented its program for 2023, a year that they hope will be the year of the “full recovery” after the pandemic in terms of visits. To do this, they have opted for the strength and beauty of the Baroque, as well as innovative narratives.
During the presentation of this year’s new projects, the president of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo Nacional del Prado, Javier Solana, and the director of the museum, Miguel Falomir, assured that the sculpture will gain special relevance within the exhibitions of its permanent collection.
A “baroque spring”
The first semester of the year a “baroque spring” will be held in the Prado. In this way, of March 28 to July 9 you can enjoy the largest exhibition dedicated to Guido Reni to date.
An exhibition, in collaboration with the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, will highlight the influence of the Bolognese master on art and his link with Spain. It is the largest exhibition dedicated to Reni to date, with more than a hundred works between painting, sculpture and graphic work that will relate this great painter of the Baroque, of which the Prado has 20 works, with other contemporary creators of the 16th and 17th centuries, such as Titian, the Carracci, Caravaggio, Zurbarán, Ribera or Murillo.
Furthermore, from April 25, and until July 30, you can also enjoy an exhibition dedicated to another Baroque artist: Francisco de Herrera ‘el Mozo’. On the other hand, the museum will exhibit from March 7 to July 2. works by El Greco, Goya and Velázquez from the Frick Collection that, exceptionally and for the first time, can be seen in our country.
New narratives and art from the past
As for the second quarter, the exhibitions are expected to be “more conceptual”, open to new ways of approaching the art of the past, as explained by the museum’s director. In this way, we can find ‘Reverses. The hidden side’which will explore from November 7, 2023 to March 3, 2024 what is not seen in the paintings, what is on the B side of the pictorial support, be it board, canvas, metal or stone.
An exhibition that starts from the paradoxical reality that a quarter of the absolute masterpiece of the museum, ‘Las Meninas’, is occupied by the back of a painting.
On the other hand, in collaboration with the National Art Museum of Catalonia, ‘the lost mirror. The medieval image of the Jew and Judaism’, on how the Spanish art of the Late Middle Ages was the scene of the complex construction of the image of the Jew with works that will show the circumstances of the interreligious relations of the time in Spain. This exhibition can be enjoyed from October 10, 2023 to January 14, 2024.
Anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso
The Prado Museum will also have within its programming a section dedicated to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. In this way, in November he will show a selection of his works to reflect how Velázquez and El Greco influenced him.
Source: Lasexta
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