Prado sends 73 works to China for five months

Even in Spain , the practice of sending substantial cores of museum collections to China is spreading. In recent months, many Italian museums, from the Pilotta to the Uffizi, from the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome to the Galleria Borghese, have sent many of their iconic works to China. Spain had opened the dance last summer, when the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum sent some 70 works to Shanghai ’s Museum of Art Pudong to trace a history of Western art. And now it is the turn of the Prado, which again at the Museum of Art Pudong is organizing, from April 23 to September 1, 2024, the exhibition Ages of splendor. A history of Spain in the Museo del Prado.

Little is known about the exhibition: what we do know, however, is that 73 works from the Spanish institution will travel to the Chinese museum, which opens in 2021, and there will be paintings such as El Greco, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo, Ribera, Goya, Fortuny, and Sorolla. In short, the greats of Spanish painting with some other significant European protagonists. In addition, there will also be the so-called Mona Lisa of the Prado, a variant of the famous Louvre work, executed by an artist from Leonardo da Vinci’s circle. The Leonardo work will be the subject of a separate focus.

We learn from the Chinese press that of the 73 works traveling to China, as many as 16 are leaving Spain for the first time, and even nine of them are leaving the Prado for the first time. It is not known, however, exactly which works the public will not be able to see in Madrid for almost five months, so it is not even known if they are works from the deposits or masterpieces, but it is not unlikely that toward Shanghai they will go some first choices. Which will perhaps leave a hole in the museum for all those who choose Madrid as a travel destination between spring and summer this year.

Prado sends 73 works to China for five months

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