Luca Giordano
dal 20/2/2008 al 3/5/2008
Segnalato da
20/2/2008
Luca Giordano
Prado Museum, Madrid
In the Cason del Buen Retiro. The exhibition features a group of 75 works including drawings, architectural plans, watercolours, oil paintings and prints with the intention of explaining the artist's painting in the Cason, its history, meaning, iconography, technique and the various restorations that it has undergone in the past. In addition, the fresco will be used to analyse all of Giordano's Spanish mural schemes. Curated by Andres Ubeda.
curated by Andrés Úbeda
To mark the recent remodelling and restoration of the Casón del Buen Retiro and prior to its inauguration as the Museum’s Study Centre, the Prado will be opening the building to the public with a series of Open Doors Days that take place between 12 February and 4 May. On these days the visiting public will be able to appreciate the results of the restoration of the magnificent fresco by Luca Giordano (Naples 1634-1705) that decorates the ceiling of the principal room in the building. In addition, visitors will be able to enjoy a display of other important works by the artist.
The Museo del Prado is opening the newly restored and enlarged Casón del Buen Retiro prior to its inauguration as the Prado’s new Study Centre. A series of Open Doors Days will take place between 21 February and 4 May from Wednesdays to Sundays, 11am to 8pm, free entry. During this period the Casón will be showing a monographic exhibition devoted to Luca Giordano that focuses on The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, the most important and impressive fresco that the artist painted in Spain.
The exhibition will feature a group of 75 works including drawings, architectural plans, watercolours, oil paintings and prints with the intention of explaining Giordano’s painting in the Casón, its history, meaning, iconography, technique and the various restorations that it has undergone in the past. In addition, the fresco – considered the most perfect of all the works that Giordano painted in Spain – will be used to analyse all of Giordano’s Spanish mural schemes, namely the staircase and ceilings in the Basilica of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (1692-1694), the office and bedroom (the latter now lost) of Charles II in the Palace of Aranjuez; the Casón del Buen Retiro (ca.1697); the Sacristy in Toledo Cathedral (1698); the Royal Chapel in the Alcázar (now lost); and the church of San Antonio de los Portugueses, Madrid (1699).
Prado Museum
Paseo del Prado s/n - Madrid