Bosco reopens his garden and some secrets

The Prado Museum is famous throughout the world for hosting the best of artists such as Velázquez, Goya, El Greco and Bosco.

The rooms where

and

are exhibited

have been the most visited throughout their history.

A large part of the treasures in the permanent collection once again dazzled, sharing the central gallery with the

exhibition

(until November 29, for now).

In the midst of this conjunction of stars, the triptych of

was missed

, difficult to move from room 56 A. But the popular fervor that the play arouses no longer has to wait any longer.

The room in which Bosch's work is grouped (Hertogenbosch, now the Netherlands, around 1450 -1516) reopens today with a new montage and lighting that allows the back of the paintings to be seen with the same clarity as its frontal view.

The new museography, sponsored by the Community of Madrid and Samsung, includes a monitor on which the figures that populate the work of El Bosco are projected at a size 12 times larger than the real one.

The Prado is reunited with the public with a selection of 'greatest hits'

The nine works that the Prado treasures by the flamenco master occupy their classical location.

The novelty is that the green of the walls has been intensified, the lighting has been transformed and the supports allow the approach to the details that populate paintings so admired throughout the world such as

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,

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or

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• The museums received fewer visits in June than the capacity allowed

• Museums seek to make their presence on the Internet profitable

Andrés Úbeda, deputy director of Conservation and Research at the Prado, specifies that the capacity imposed by the pandemic will allow 40 people to visit simultaneously.

Nothing to do with the crowds that gathered during the exhibition that the museum dedicated to the artist between May 31 and September 25, 2016, which was attended by 600,000 people, an absolute record in the history of the institution.

The deputy director adds that during the past year, more than 7,000 visitors a day passed through the Bosco room, accumulating a total of two and a half million visitors a year.

is one of the five works most listened to by users of the Museum's audio guides, only behind

.

During the period of confinement due to covid-19, the most viewed video was a direct on Instagram dedicated to this work, with 1,344,240 impressions.

Regarding the museum's plans for new room openings, Úbeda has indicated that it is conditioned by the evolution of the pandemic.

"We have divided the museum into modules on which we will act when possible, but the immediate future is unknown," he concludes.

For Alejandro Vergara, head of Conservation of Flemish Painting, the way in which the Bosco room is now displayed is how the museum workers observe it when there is no public.

"It is a unique experience that we wanted to share with the visitors, because as it has been, it is how we saw it before," he says.

In the world only a little more than twenty works by Bosco are preserved, of which nine are in the Prado.

For Vergara, they represent the best ensemble that can be seen of works by the flamenco master: “There is no comparison.

Bosco has given world importance to the Prado and our museum has given it to him throughout history.

Here you can contemplate his dark mental and pictorial universe like nowhere else ”.

Visits below what is allowed

Miguel Falomir, director of the Prado, explained that the inability to travel is preventing the museum from reaching the number of visitors it could have: 2,500 daily, a third of its occupancy capacity.

The average remains between 2,100 and 2,200, despite the reception that 'Guests' is having, dedicated to the stereotypical representation of women in official 19th century painting.

Inaugurated on October 6, it has already registered 10,393 visits and the sale of 613 catalogs, an amount higher than that of other temporary exhibitions in the gallery.