Portal de Lorca

www.portaldelorca.com

• Home
• Business
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• News
• Advertisement

The exhibition, which can be visited at the Blue Museum of Holy Week, will be open from November 15 to 24 and will be complemented by a series of thematic visits to the museum's permanent collection.

The Blue Museum of Holy Week and, through it, the Brotherhood of Labradors, Paso Azul, intends to make a modest contribution to the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Prado Museum, carrying out an extraordinary exhibition called The Prado in Silks.

The exhibition will be located in the cloister of the old Convent of San Francisco, one of the most prominent spaces of the museum, and in it you can see nine of the twelve Nazarenes of the Virgen de los Dolores, and thus contemplate the way in which the painting It has been transferred to silk embroidery since the Nazarenes will be exhibited accompanied by a photograph of the painting that was taken as a model, so that the visitor can compare the original work with silk reproduction.

This extraordinary exhibition The Prado in Silks, open from November 15 to 24, 2019, will be complemented by a series of thematic visits to the permanent collection of the museum that will focus on the origin of the iconographic models and the inspiration of the different embroidery, ending with the explanation of the nine Nazarenes exposed in the cloister of the museum, as well as the paintings they reproduce.

These visits will take place on November 19, when the two hundred years after the Prado Museum will open, and on the 22nd and 24th of the same month.

The Prado Museum exhibits nine of the works reproduced in the Nazarenes, which correspond to four paintings by José de Ribera (La Trinidad, San Pedro liberated by an angel, El Salvador and the penitent Magdalene), two by Diego Velázquez (The coronation of Virgin and the crucified Christ), two others by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (The Annunciation and the Ecce Homo) and one by Rafael (the Fall on the road to Calvary, known as The Pasto of Sicily).

The rest of the works presented by the Nazarenes are preserved in different museums such as the Hermitage Museum, in St. Petersburg, or the National Gallery in London.

Thus, it is certainly interesting to see how twenty-four paintings, including some true emblems of Art History, have been transferred from oil to silk and from canvas to velvet.

These Nazarenes are not simply copies of paintings, but rather constitute a technical display in terms of nuanced silk embroidery, which, together with the attractive invoice of the paintings taken as a model, manages to compose pieces of great aesthetic interest.

Likewise, together with the Nazarene in which the face of the crucified Christ of Velázquez has been reproduced, visitors will have the opportunity to contemplate the painting that López Gimeno made to serve as a model for embroiderers, which will serve to delve into the fundamental role that Both the artistic director and the embroiderer play in the technique and the process of making these pieces.

Within this new initiative, on Saturday, November 16, guided tours will be held throughout the day with Lorca groups of people with functional disabilities, within the framework of the celebration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities that is commemorated every 3 from December.

An activity that, due to the success it obtained in its first edition, this year is repeated in advance a few days to make it coincide so that everyone can enjoy this tribute to "the Prado".

With these activities, the Blue Museum continues its commitment to culture in Lorca and pays tribute to the prestigious Prado Museum in commemoration of its bicentennial, that is, it is about bringing some of the most important works of the collection to Lorca from the Madrid museum through the artistic embroidery in silks and gold belonging to the heritage of the Blue Step.

The new exhibition that will soon host the MASS has been presented by the President of the Blue Step, José María Miñarro, together with the director of the Blue Museum of Holy Week, Diana Murcia, the president of the Paso Azul Foundation, María del Sagrario Corazón García , and the Councilor for Culture of the City of Lorca, María Ángeles Mazuecos.

Source: Paso Azul Lorca