Zurbarán (super) natural
Guided tour to the exhibition at the MNAC
Friends of the CCCB
Exclusive for Friends of the CCCB
The presentation will be given by the two curators of the exhibition, Àlex Mitrani, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Museum, and Joan Yeguas, curator of Renaissance and Baroque at the National Museum. After the presentation, there will be a free visit to the exhibition.
The MNAC, the Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston are collaborating in this exhibition that will bring together for the first time the three versions of Saint Francis of Assisi according to Pope Nicholas V's Vision, a major work by Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664). The absolutely exceptional possibility of comparing the three paintings sheds light on each of them. The work preserved by the MNAC has undergone a thorough restoration process that has allowed it to recover its original appearance and bring to light details hidden by the passage of time.
This exhibition will also bring together other works by Zurbarán, including the two subtly different twin versions of his famous Still Life with Vessels, one from the Museo del Prado and the other from the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. In these paintings, Zurbarán generates an aesthetic of emptiness, distance and presence, and of silence, where we do not distinguish everyday life from religious mystery.
