The Prado exhibits the work of the Spanish in Naples in the 500th century. The exhibition is open until January 29, then it will go to Italy.
The work of Spanish painters and sculptors active in Naples at the beginning of the 500th century and the connections between their artistic experience and the great Italian masters of the time: this is the main content of 'Another Renaissance', a new temporary exhibition at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, open to the public from tomorrow until 29 January 2023 and created in collaboration with the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte.
Curated by Andrea Zezza of the University of Campania and Riccardo Naldi of the University of Naples L'Orientale, assisted by Manuel Arias del Prado, the exhibition brings together 75 works from public and private collections in various countries, including the Fund of Places of Worship of the Italian Ministry of the Interior.
Pedro Fernández, Bartolomé Ordóñez, Diego de Siloe, Pedro Machica and Alonso Berruguete are the main Spanish artists who find space there, although a special place is reserved for Raphael's Madonna del Pesce, a painting kept in the Prado and which created a school in Naples. For those responsible for the exhibition, the content was chosen to highlight a little-known, but considered relevant, side of the developments of sixteenth-century art in Italy.
"I don't think there has ever been an exhibition like this", explained Miguel Falomir, director of the Prado, in a meeting with the press this morning. “This exhibition is a small miracle and is one of the most important ones put on by the Prado in recent years”, he added.
Some of the artists presented, Naldi added, have made “the Neapolitan environment take giant steps” at the time, allowing the development of a real “school” of painting and sculpture. After the Spanish stage, the exhibition is sponsored by the Bbva Foundation and will be set up at the Museo di San Martino in Naples in 2023.
Article published on 17 October 2022 - 18:42
