Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado

The great Spanish painters have long inspired generations of art lovers and will continue to do so in Australia when the exhibition, Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado opens at the Queensland Art Gallery this month. Organised by the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, this is one of the largest and most significant international loans the Queensland gallery has ever undertaken. It is also the first exhibition from the prestigious Prado that has ever been shown in the Southern Hemisphere.

The artist line-up includes masters such as Velasquez, Goya, El Greco, Ribera and Murillo. Australia is lucky to have access to more than 100 masterpieces from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries that belong to one of the world’s great museums for painters, the Prado, which is considered practically the next best thing to a sacred site.

This show is an unprecedented opportunity to admire up close the masterful paint quality of these extraordinary works of art, created by some of history’s most renowned painters. It continues the Queensland Art Gallery’s links with the finest institutions and curators from around the world.

Queensland Art Gallery (QAG)
July 21 – November 4, 2012
Queensland

Francisco de Goya, Maria Antonia Gonzaga, Marchioness widow of Villafranca (Maria Antonia Gonzaga, marquesa viuda de Villafranca), c.1795, oil on canvas, 87 x 72cm
Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

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