Art Of The Day Weekly

#498 - from 18 January 2018 to 24 January 2018


Room 12, Las Meninas, Velázquez © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

LETTER FROM MADRID

The Prado year

The Spanish capital has just celebrated the 400th anniversary of its Plaza Mayor, and the centennial of the beginning of the works on the subway. Needless to say, many other events will be honored during 2018. In the art field, the most awaited one is the 200th anniversary of the Prado museum, which just wrapped up 2017 with very good figures – attendance at 2.8 million visitors. November 19, 1819 was the opening to the public of the rooms with 311 Spanish paintings. The historical moment will be celebrated this year on that same date. Before that, a number of remarkable exhibitions will be held, among them Painting on stone on 17 April, and Portraits by Lorenzo Lotto on 19 June. Unfortunately though, the incorporation by Norman Foster and is team of the Salon de Reinos, a XVIIth century palace, into the museum, one of the iconic projects of Prado 200, will not be completed before 2021.

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