The power and beauty of the Baroque plus innovative narratives head the new programme at the Museo Nacional del Prado

The power of Baroque painting takes centre stage in the Museo del Prado’s programme of activities for the first part of this year. The “divine” Guido Reni and his work will thus be the subject of a major exhibition, coinciding with another devoted to Francisco de Herrera the Younger and the High Baroque.

This spring, the Museum will be exhibiting a group of works by El Greco, Goya and Velázquez from The Frick Collection, an exceptional loan that will be seen in Spain for the first time.

In the second half of the year, the Prado will once again be looking at little explored fields, analysing the image of Jewish people in the Middle Ages in the exhibition The Lost Mirror and reflecting on the paradoxical and surprising nature of the work of art in Versos. The hidden side.

The Museum will also be opening up the collection to new narratives through its well established “thematic routes” programme.

Guido Reni and Francisco de Herrera the Younger will be the leading names at the Museo Nacional del Prado this spring, while the Museum will also be displaying Spanish painting from The Frick Collection and participating in the programme of events to mark the 50^th anniversary of the death of Picasso.

In final four months of the year, the temporary exhibitions will enhance the Museum’s academic discourse through innovative approaches that will project new narratives via a broad range of disciplines that go beyond the traditional scope of Art History: an analysis of the role played by images in the relations between Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain and the revelation of the secrets concealed on the back of paintings.

Drawing will also be important this year, with an exhibition on the group of drawings by Emilio Sánchez Perrier acquired by the Fundación Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno, and the exhibition Drawing for engraving in Enlightenment Spain. From Goya to Carmona.