Rubens
dal 24/3/2014 al 28/6/2014
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Communications Department - Prado Museum
24/3/2014
Rubens
Prado Museum, Madrid
The Triumph of the Eucharist. The exhibition focuses on both a major restoration project at the Museum and on the importance and outstanding quality of his paintings. It analysea one of Rubens's most important projects: the six panels on 'The Triumph of the Eucharist' commissioned from the artist by Isabel Clara Eugenia in 1625 as models for tapestries for the convent of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid.
Rubens. The Triumph of the Eucharist is an exhibition opening in late March at the Museo del Prado. It focuses on both a major restoration project at the Museum and on the importance and outstanding quality of Rubens’s paintings. Curated by Alejandro Vergara, Chief Curator of Flemish and Northern Schools Painting at the Prado, the exhibition will analyse one of Rubens’s most important projects: the six panels on “The Triumph of the Eucharist” commissioned from the artist by Isabel Clara Eugenia in 1625 as models for tapestries for the convent of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid. The panels will be shown alongside the tapestries made from these designs, which now belong to Patrimonio Nacional.
In 2011 work started on a meticulous restoration of the six panels in the Prado’s collection, a project funded by Fundación Iberdrola in its capacity as Benefactor Member of the Museum’s Restoration Programme. Restorers at the Museum removed various 18th-century additions to each of the panels, which had prevented a correct visual appreciation of Rubens’s designs and had also damaged the original supports. The exhibition will offer a detailed analysis of this restoration process. In addition, the project involved the training of restorers from museums in Europe and the USA who are specialising in the restoration of wooden supports and who received support from the Getty Foundation, which funded the time that they spent in Madrid.
Following its display at the Museo del Prado, the exhibition, a collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum, will travel to Los Angeles where it will be on view at the Getty from 14 October, 2014 to 4 January, 2015.
Image: The Triumph of the Church, Rubens. Oil on canvas, 63,5 x 105 cm, 1625-1626. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
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