The Unnoticed Prado
Original title: El Prado inadvertido
A tour through the Prado, the essentials and the forgotten, from the point of view of an expert.
A walk through the Prado. Past its classics and its forgotten pieces. Past its history, its hidden nooks and crannies. Following the glorious success of the classic Tres horas en el Museo del Prado by Eugenio d’Ors, Estrella de Diego proposes a new tour from a new perspective.
Las meninas by Velázquez, interpreted in the light of Borges’ Pierre Menard, or the works of Goya; as well as historic paintings that we see with different eyes today and interpret from a different perspective, like Las hijas del Cid by Teófilo de la Puebla or Juana la Loca by Pradilla, or the sculpture of the Hermafrodito; as well as forgotten canvasses like those of Clara Peeters or the splendid portrait of an African lion titled El Cid by Rosa Bonheur, hidden away in the basement for the longest time, maybe because its creator was a woman and a lesbian, and if she is to be vindicated today, it is above all as a great painter in her own right.
A tour through the Prado, the essentials and the forgotten, from the point of view of an expert.
A walk through the Prado. Past its classics and its forgotten pieces. Past its history, its hidden nooks and crannies. Following the glorious success of the classic Tres horas en el Museo del Prado by Eugenio d’Ors, Estrella de Diego proposes a new tour from a new perspective.
Las meninas by Velázquez, interpreted in the light of Borges’ Pierre Menard, or the works of Goya; as well as historic paintings that we see with different eyes today and interpret from a different perspective, like Las hijas del Cid by Teófilo de la Puebla or Juana la Loca by Pradilla, or the sculpture of the Hermafrodito; as well as forgotten canvasses like those of Clara Peeters or the splendid portrait of an African lion titled El Cid by Rosa Bonheur, hidden away in the basement for the longest time, maybe because its creator was a woman and a lesbian, and if she is to be vindicated today, it is above all as a great painter in her own right.
